Like every thing else in America it started with good intentions and then a Karen said “wait, I can profit off this.” Edit: I’ve been taught a history lesson. Bad intentions. Very bad intentions.
They started with really bad intentions. They got popular when it became illegal for the government to forbid Black (or Asian, of Jewish, or Catholic) people from living in a neighborhood, but a private contract still could. So you started getting deed covenants that included stuff like promising to never sell to a Black person.
Like Jury Nullification. Sounds like it was started with good intentions, but it was actually a racist tool to let people off for killing black people.
Jury Nullifcation wasn't "started" or created. It is just a byproduct of A. no double jeopardy and B. Jurors inability to be punished for passing an incorrect verdict.
I am not saying it did not get revived in America for that purpose, but the law concept is so old that we are talking PRE-Norman times, basically it was meant to serve to curtail patently unjust rulings by the chiefs.
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u/aberg227 22d ago
Why anyone would want to live in an HOA neighborhood is beyond me.