Long Island has Suburb that Honours By-Laws Prohibiting non-Whites

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifest...-1227579117344

TAKE a wrong turn leaving bustling, multicultural Manhattan and you'll find yourself on the doorstep of an all-white enclave established by Nazi sympathisers where one can't buy property unless they're German.


The rural hamlet of Yaphank, Long Island, is home to 6000 people and lies a little more than 100km from New York City.

Its snaking road network once read like a list of the worst of the worst from the Third Reich — streets were named after Hitler and Goering and Goebbels.

Through the main streets of town American Nazi sympathisers once marched, the stars and stripes waving in the breeze alongside the swastika.

The thriving community was at its most extreme in the middle of the 20th century during the peak of WWII. Fast forward 70 years and the propaganda has largely been lost. The sentiment though remains the same.

According to a lawsuit by one of the community's property owners, an ancient bylaw still requires homeowners to be primarily of German descent.

Yaphank was once home to one of a number of Nazi summer camps across the US. Camp Siegfried drew Nazi sympathisers and taught Nazi ideology. It was owned by an organisation known as the German American Bund, which would later become the German American Settlement League.

The organisation made it plainly clear whose side they were on. On buildings they engraved the swastika and in broad daylight they espoused the teachings of an anti-Semitic dictator half a world away.

In 1937, the community purchased 50 lots and established a bylaw that current residents say violates federal housing laws.

The group's president, Robert Kessler, told The New York Times this week the lawsuit against his community is based on a "misunderstanding".

"People in other parts of town look at us and think this is closed to non-Germans," he said. "That's just not true."

Mr Kneer and Mrs Flynn-Kneer have lived happily in Yaphank since 1999. They were allowed to move in after the league met with Mrs Flynn-Kneer's German mother. The interview, according to the Times, was conducted partly in German.

"They were very impressed that she was from Berlin," she said.

It was only in 2006 when they tried to sell their home that they realised something was very, very wrong.


The pair say they were barred from advertising the home and instead required to use the leagues' internal bulletin. The bulletin would be distributed to only families of German descent. The house did not sell for almost 10 years.

[Rev.Cambeul]

There's a town in New York that excludes all non-Jews. There are towns scattered across the US that exclude all non-Muslims. There are great swathes of land that exclude all non-Amerindians. There are suburbs in every large city where Whites are not permitted - to enter is a death sentence. Obongo the HNIC has enacted federal laws that permit his sons and daughters to decide whether a neighbourhood is too White and enforce diversity at gunpoint.

Do you notice the pattern?

Can you say WHITE GENOCIDE?

@Cailen.