Kelli Robinson
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- Nov 25, 2014
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My sister and I are black females and we're in our last year of college and we're living in a rooming house with this white guy. We have the entire basement area but the wall that separates our basement room from the laundry room is thin, so we can hear noises very well from the laundry room - because the wall is SO thin. This white guy who lives in the rooming house with us is in his late sixties and from the south and from the time we first got here, this man has been harassing us. The owner told us to clean the house and get it ready for Xmas, we do so and this white guy comes down from his room, turns off the Xmas tree lights, kicks the living room rug around and just messes up the place after we clean it. He'll go into the laundry room and slam the washer and dryer doors so loud our room walls vibrate and he'll do it early in the morning awakening us from sleep. He'll slam the door leading to our downstairs basement so hard, it has broken picture frames hanging on our walls. He has held mail and given it to us a day or so later.
He turns off the water in the house without us knowing about it so we can't use the water at all. He has caused three other tenants before us to move out because they became fed up with him. When this guy sees us, he'll say: "hey girl" and he knows our name but he does this several times on purpose, knowing we do not like it. He is just a problem and he only does it to us (he used to do it to the other black tenant who lives in the house but he stopped doing it to him because the black tenant is a hell of a lot bigger and more built than this white guy is. However tonight the white guy parked his car in the middle of the driveway, so that the black tenant could not be able to park his car in the driveway as well & the landlord said the driveway is for everyone's use and the white guy knows the black tenant always parks his car in the driveway as well) and this has lead us to believe that he's doing this because he's racist because there's a white guy who lives in the house as well and this guys doesn't do the white guy like this....And so my sister and I are planning on telling the landlord (for the second time) about this guy and telling the landlord, either he does something about this guy or we're moving but I just wanted to come here and describe what this guy is doing and ask others if it sounds to them like racial harassment because to us it does. Because the owner is white and lives in the house (but is gone most of all the time), this guy doesn't do it to the owner and he doesn't do it to the other white tenant in the house but he only tries it with us.
He turns off the water in the house without us knowing about it so we can't use the water at all. He has caused three other tenants before us to move out because they became fed up with him. When this guy sees us, he'll say: "hey girl" and he knows our name but he does this several times on purpose, knowing we do not like it. He is just a problem and he only does it to us (he used to do it to the other black tenant who lives in the house but he stopped doing it to him because the black tenant is a hell of a lot bigger and more built than this white guy is. However tonight the white guy parked his car in the middle of the driveway, so that the black tenant could not be able to park his car in the driveway as well & the landlord said the driveway is for everyone's use and the white guy knows the black tenant always parks his car in the driveway as well) and this has lead us to believe that he's doing this because he's racist because there's a white guy who lives in the house as well and this guys doesn't do the white guy like this....And so my sister and I are planning on telling the landlord (for the second time) about this guy and telling the landlord, either he does something about this guy or we're moving but I just wanted to come here and describe what this guy is doing and ask others if it sounds to them like racial harassment because to us it does. Because the owner is white and lives in the house (but is gone most of all the time), this guy doesn't do it to the owner and he doesn't do it to the other white tenant in the house but he only tries it with us.