Interracial Couple Evicted From Home Because Neighbours Complained About Their Relationship

A trailer parker owner evicted a mother with two young children – because her husband is black.

Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic and Native American, was asked to leave her $275-a-month trailer in Mississippi – because their neighbours allegedly complained.

Dunahoo, 40, said she was told “no shacking” was allowed – but was still evicted after she explained that she is married to Stanley Hoskins, 37, who is a sergeant in the national guard.

“Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” Dunahoo, told the Clarion-Ledger. “Nobody’s given us dirty looks. This is our first time.”

According to the newspaper, the park’s owner, Gene Baker, said he only did it because “the neighbours were giving me such a problem.”

Dunahoo said that the pair were trying to save money by living in the park, and had at first been welcomed warmly.

“[Baker] was real nice,” she said. “He invited me to church and gave me a hug. I bragged on him to my family.”

However, she said the next day he phone and said: “Hey, you didn’t tell me you was married to no black man.”

“Oh, it’s a big problem with the members of my church, my community and my mother-in-law,” she quoted him as saying. “They don’t allow that black and white shacking.”

She said he told her, “You don’t talk like you wouldn’t be with no black man. If you would had come across like you were with a black man, we wouldn’t have this problem right now.”

She said she replied, “My husband ain’t no thug. He’s a good man. My husband has served his country for 13 years. He’s a sergeant in the National Guard.”

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to end racial discrimination, but in Mississippi marriages between white and black people remained illegal until 1967.

Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said: “Racial discrimination should be a thing of the past in Mississippi, considering our long history.”

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