Oct 10
Those folks down in Farmers Branch sure do come up with the darndest ways to get rid of Mexicans. Now they’re targeting colored houses. This reminds me of the blatant discrimination my family encountered after my father decided to paint our shutters neon blue. They had been an acceptable sky blue prior to his sixth martini. To make matters worse, we had a neon blue Volkswagen bug.
The neighborhood kids stopped playing kick the can with us. Our house was egged on a nightly basis. Neighbors placed intimidating signs in our yard that said “Smiths Out of Forest Villa Lane!” I resorted to wearing a wig and sunglasses when I left the house.
So I feel the pain of the colored houses in Farmers Branch, and the unfair treatment that they have received. Take resident Robin Bernier, who has petitioned the City Council to require permits and color approval before people paint their houses. “When you paint your house some fluorescent or garish color scheme, you negatively affect my [home] value,” Bernier said. Uh, you live in Farmers Branch. How much lower could your home value go?
According to business owner and colored home supporter Elizabeth Villafranca, this is just another jab at Hispanics in this once quiet little town. “We know who has the bright colors,” she said. “Latin Americans.”
Tom Bohmier lives near a house with an offensive bright blue garage. He said he didn’t want his neighbors “for whatever reason, mental incompetence or poor judgment, to paint their house electric something.” You see? If everyone lived in a nice white trailer like Mr. Bohmier, we wouldn’t have these problems.
The president of the Code Enforcement Association of Texas, Neely Blackman, said that house color doesn’t make a difference in property values. “Now neighbors make a difference,” he said, citing issues such as Hispanics.
Rick Johnson has problems with three houses in his neighborhood: a pale yellow one with black doors and trim and a red roof, a brick home with bright blue shutters, and a third with a purplish trim. WHAT IS SO WRONG ABOUT BRIGHT BLUE SHUTTERS?
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I alternated red, white, and blue shutters on my house just to show my Mexican neighbors who’s boss.
Farmers Branch should make a deal with dish network or something along those lines. They clearly do not have enough to do in that town.
My favorite house in West U is bright yellow with purple trim, with spinning lawn-things in the yard. If you can do that in West U, you can do it anywhere. It says so right here in the Constitution.
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my office that i drive to once a week is in farmers branch. what a fucking shithole. i can tell you the people there arent scared of blue shutters, theyre scared that their blond daughter is going to fuck jose to get back at daddy.
OMG! What next, Maroon auto paint?
Re: 3. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
Step away from the blog Dr. Paul.
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Re: 4. dtc
Ha. I was the blond daughter who fuck*ed Jose at one point. My Dad was fine with it, but his sister should move to Farmer’s branch. Her exact words upon seeing my daughter for the first time, “Oh look! A lil’ brown baby.” We don’t speak at our family reunions.
/” I resorted to wearing a wig and sunglasses when I left the house.”
//You were just trying to pass yourself off as Jackie O.
Re: 7. lush
Is your aunt Barbara Bush?
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Re: 6. treehugger
Ya know, I just realized something about myself. I like all sorts of crazy colors on houses. But for some reason I find cars in any shade of teal, maroon, orange or purple really offensive. Does this make me a racist?
Re: 8. FledTheAsylum
Like I would even go to my family reunions if she were.
You sure have been posting an awful lot.
Did Evan give you the boot?
Just to set the record straight. We daughters actually picked out the color. Dad is color blind and we chose that blue shade from one of those strips with tiny squares on it. I remember the painter asking Dad, “Are you sure you want this one?” and we all said yes.
It really didn’t look that bright on the card!
And you’re right. The blue did match the 1968 Volkswagon Bug.
I think we confused planes flying into National Airport our car and shutters were so bright…
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Re: 11. Big Sis
You know I don’t have any childhood memories.
People, this is not 1957. The politically correct term is “houses of color.”
I’m glad I don’t live in F.B. I lived in N. Tx for a while and found the folks up there so unfriendly…thanks but no thanks, I’ll stay down here in Houston, it’s a better city anyway. Multiculturalism is okay here.
Re: 14. d.w.
But (and this is totally off topic, but I’m sure PL will understand) where does one go to get a really good breakfast taco with salsa and/or BBQ sauce? In Austin the choices are unlimited; still searching in Houston.
Re: 9. lush
My white on white F-150 works just fine for me in Austin (previously in Frisco) but it was hell trying to find my truck in an Odessa WalMart parking lot once. Eventually I did find the one without an oil field service magnetic door sign and red soil grunge. A truck of color might be advisable there.
Re: 3. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
We have a constitution???? Shit, where’s it been?!
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I’m still cracking up…..
Re: 16. treehugger
you drive a Ford truck?
Re: 14. d.w.
Try La Flor Taqueria on Washington Ave.
Pero cuidado–la salsa es sorprendente picante.
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Re: 19. double tonic
All the best people do.
Re: 15. sadstaffer
Ruchi’s on W. Alabama & S Shepherd.
Go back for lunch, too.
And since you’re there, you might as well stay for dinner.
Re: 22. txstater
And some really cool people hang out at the sports pub next door.
http://mexfiles.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/a-whiter-shade-of-pale/
[…] 13th, 2007 · No Comments Pink Lady (inthepinktexas.com) couldn’t let this one pass. I present it as evidence thatit’s not us West Texas fronterizados who are necessarily bigots and fools (it’s just that our crappy local newspaper is edited by folks from Odessa who don’t know how to read Spanish or check facts. Those folks down in Farmers Branch sure do come up with the darndest ways to get rid of Mexicans. Now they’re targeting colored houses. This reminds me of the blatant discrimination my family encountered after my father decided to paint our shutters neon blue. They had been an acceptable sky blue prior to his sixth martini. […]
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Re: 11. Big Sis
I Live in Farmers Branch and no one said in the city council meeting that it was a Hispanic thing at all. The way that came about was Elizabeth Villefranca A mexican food joint owner Stood up and spoke to the council and did not even make it a race issue then but! when she went out in the front of city hall and saw a T.V.camera and a newspaper reporter She said it was a rasist Hispanic Issue and thats how she sells more Taco’s and mexican food see FREE T.V. time. She could give a shit less about her Hispanic people she just wants to make money off them!!!!!!! Thats why she does it. she live’s in a gated community with all white people in Dallas . She was about to lose her Food joint & house(it was for sale)when she spoke out one day and bam all the ILLEGALS came & ate and from then on she says ever thing Farmers Branch does is against Hispanics and her 900,000 thousand dollar Dallas big a$$ house is not for sale anymore & she is rolling in the money!!!!!! so people get you head out of your ass & wake up the people who make every thing a Illegal mexican issue is f^%King The people they say they are helping!!!
Re: 25. KING of FARMERS BRANCH
I agree–it seems some would like to make Farmers Branch out to be a racist society and that Hispanics only are being targeted. My family lives in Farmers Branch, built an incredible Italian villa-style home, and the exterior colors are classic Italian villa, architecturally correct colors. We are not Mexican. We are not even Hispanic. However, we have been contacted by a reporter for the Dallas Morning News–that our house has been mentioned in this “colored house” controversy. Frankly, we are tired of Farmers Branch and are in the process of moving. Too many people there seem too worried about other people’s business. To say a nearly $1million home brings down property values in that neighborhood is INSANE. Too many people have too little to do.