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Debra Kamin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
493 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Throughout the whole process, she believed that would be sufficient to get accepted.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Yeah.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

They want to do an interview where they can see her face and talk to her.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

On the day of her interview, the video actually doesn't work.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So they say to her, since we couldn't see you, please send us a video.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

I do.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

I'm fascinated by this.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

This was two days before Christmas.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And she makes this video on her living room couch.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And right behind her is a photograph of her mixed race family that's hanging on the wall.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And how did they react to that?

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

Well, dead silence is how they reacted.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So a month passes, she hears nothing.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So she reaches back out and she says to them, what's the status of my application?

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

And they write back and they tell her she should not expect an approval.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

No.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

That's right.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

I think it's that she did not fit the criteria for this community.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

So she decides that she's going to sue for discrimination because she believes by being rejected from this community, her civil rights have been infringed upon.

The Daily
One Town's Blueprint for Resegregating America

The legal experts that I've spoken to say that her case is extremely strong for a number of reasons, primarily being she's not just suing under the Fair Housing Act.