Today I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a discussion about the 39^th anniversary of fair housing...a law enacted partially in remembrance of MLK! You know every day I learn something new....and today I learned something about 55 and up communities and some of the issues that were arising due to the "levels" of activity "required"  in the active adult communities. Some of the older participants in the audience had acknowledged that they knew,  had heard, or experienced  places that didn't want them there because they  used a cane or walker....They didn't fit the image of the seniors on the brochure who were playing tennis and golf. Other issues included unreasonable accomodations or walkways made of cobblestone which prevented people with wheelchairs and canes to move around freely.  

Well the Attorney General's Office has taken notice of these cases as the complaints come in. I think it is just crazy and will be following the outcome of some of these cases.

I will also say...we watched a video prior to the keynote speaker. It was the story of a woman who was  an attorney, a college professor, and a black woman who had earned everything she had achieved. One day she went to look at a place near the campus she had taught at for years....and she was told by the landlord that she does not rent to blacks. This video is a personal narrative of how one woman turned a feeling of being discredited to the need to stand up for all the persons who have been treated as such and never found the voice to speak up.

While discrimination may not be so blatant as this today-it does exist and we need to be aware of this and recognize it...and stand up against it.

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