Blatant racism

What responsibility if any is an HOA obligated to protect homeowners from racist in the community if any?
Recently a person of color, a minor told a white person that they could not use the pool because they are white.
I'll just leave it there.
Your thoughts.

If witnessed by management, a director, or officer, send a warning notice to the minor's parents that harassment is forbidden on the grounds, pursuant to covenant xyz, and in particular and pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, harassment on the basis of any of the classes protected by the Fair Housing Act is not acceptable.

If not witnessed and no complaint was submitted, do nothing.

The best you can do, and I think it should be handled between the families involved, is to send out a general reminder (to everyone) that the pool is for the use of all members and the members guests.

Was the child a board member or represent themselves as such?

Was the child a staff member or represent themselves as such?

I’m failing to see how any words spoken by a random child on HOA property are the responsibility of the association.

This is some good information to take in, thank you Pat.

It is unfortunate that a proper investigation cannot be conducted. The person making the statement immediately left the pool and did not engage the belligerent whatsoever. Following the individual
could have lead to some legal consequences. Also there are no surveillance cameras at the pool and the pool entry used brass keys instead of identifiable fobs.

JMHO a strongly worded letter prepared by council sent to all owners and their renters I feel is a good start.

This would have been a non-incident. Why would anyone believe a kid telling them that? Really? Is there a lack of enforcement of some common sense?

Thank you for sharing this. Interesting.

It has crossed my mind that sending a letter to the parents about what some might call rudeness by a child could give rise to a fair housing complaint all by itself. As in a retort from the parents like:

You can't tell us to have our child shut up. He's being a kid. Do you have a problem with kids? Because HUD protects families with kids too, ya know.

Maybe have the board invite the parents to a sit-down and just be totally open?

What a situation to be in. A part of me wants to do nothing unless there is a complaint, and solely because we are talking about kids here.

PatJ1's situation seems much more solid, when it comes to the COA/HOA sending warning letters. Plus it sounds like her COA/HOA has a good attorney. I wonder if the one warning letter may have made an impression on more than just the perp here.

There are a number of things I'd consider blatantly racist - and there's definitely not enough information here to indicate that's what happened here. I don't know how old the kid is or what happened before he or she said what was said. And since we're talking about a minor, this could be an example of someone saying something really dumb.

For all you know, these two have squashed whatever this was, so the HOA should stay out of it.

Glad your troublemakers left, LetA. How old is the child who told someone to stay out of the pool?

Whatever age and given you only have a report from a self-described victim,wih most others, I don't see how it's the HOAs business.