Airbnb dumps host who wouldn't accept Asian/American guests

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Dyne Suh tearfully relates the racist incident on a Youtube video that went viral.

WHAT WAS supposed to have been a fun weekend at a popular southern California ski resort went downhill fast once the host discovered that her guest was Asian.

For all you Trump-loving Asian/Americans, look what your guy has spawned - blatant racism is now OK to express. More and more people have tossed civility and common decency out the window.

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Law student Dyne Suh made reservations through Airbnb at a cabin in Running Springs, Calif. Minutes from the cabin, the host texted Suh a message that the reservations were canceled.

“One word says it all,” the host wrote in a text message to the would-be guest. “Asian.”

“It stings that after living in the U.S. for over 23 years, this is what happens,” Suh said in the video. “No matter if I follow the law, if I’m kind to people, no matter how well I treat others–it doesn’t matter. If you’re Asian, then you’re less than human. and people can treat you like trash.”

In a statement to NBC4, Airbnb called the host's behavior "abhorrent and unacceptable."

"We have worked to provide the guest with our full support and in line with our non-discrimination policy, this host has been permanently removed from the Airbnb platform," said Christopher Nulty, spokesman for the short-term rental site. Airbnb also stated the company works to identify and prevent discrimination on its platform.

In screenshots of the texts, which were included in the video, the host wrote, “And I will not allow this country to be told what to do by foreigners. It’s why we have Trump.”

Ironically, Suh is a student at UCLA Law School and studying race relations.

Watch the video, get mad, then remember to vote in 2018's midterm elections.

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Sign of the times: Making America White, again

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This sign was posted in a New Mexico business.

OMINOUS SIGNS are starting to appear.

On the last day of 2016, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, urged a New Mexico business to remove an anti-Muslim and anti-President Obama sign.

A convenience store in Mayhill, N.M., has a notice posted on its door reportedly stating, "Obama & other Muslims Not welcome here." The hate sign has also been sold to customers. Last year, an image stating "Kill Obama" was reportedly posted in one of the store’s windows.

“While everyone has the First Amendment right to free speech – even offensive speech – we urge the store’s owner to remove the sign in the interest of common decency and of our nation’s unity at a time of increasing divisions,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.

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CAIR’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C., has noted an unprecedented spike in hate incidents targeting Muslims and other minority groups since the Nov. 8 election.

The sign is reminiscent of earlier times in U.S. history when businesses would bar people of color from their premises. 

When Donald Trump began using the phrase, "Make America great again," for his campaign, many of his supporters interpreted that to mean the time in the U.S. when whites were guaranteed social, business and educational privileges and status by virtue of the color of their skin.

By inference and by practice, that meant people of color were not worthy of those same "entitlements " that were accorded to white residents of the United States.

We thought that the U.S. had progressed beyond the blatant racism of those signs. believed they were remnants of the past. We can't say for sure whether the business owner voted for Donald Trump, but white supremacists have been emboldened by his victory. Is this the new normal? This is 2017, after all. 

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