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I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

Several years after purchasing my home in Burlington, Vermont,

my neighbor, a fellow professor, called.

He jokingly informed me that our presence in our tree line neighborhood was technically illegal.

Our D contained racially restrictive language.

He said, let me read it out loud.

No persons of any race other than the white race shall use or occupy any building or any lot.

Except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants,

domesiled with an owner or tenant.

Ouch!

Really?

My perception of quaint, even progressive New England's enlightened status was shattered.

I wasn't alone.

Turns out, Vermont had a rash of white's only properties and not just whites,

but the right kind of white.

Supreme Court justice, William Rinquiz, summer home and Greensboro, Vermont,

also bore offensive language and its deed.

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