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BumRushDaShow

(172,475 posts)
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:06 AM Thursday

A community for 'Whites only' in Arkansas sued for discrimination

Source: CNN US

PUBLISHED May 20, 2026, 10:45 PM ET


A remote settlement pegged as a “Whites-only” community in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas is being sued for discrimination after rejecting a woman’s application to buy land there. Michelle Walker, who is of Jewish ancestry, says the organization that runs the community, Return to the Land, discriminated against her by denying her the opportunity to buy land based on race and religion. Walker is married to a Black man and has biracial children, her lawsuit says. She’s seeking unspecified damages, including punitive damages.

CNN visited the 160-acre settlement nestled deep in northern rural Arkansas last August. At the time, around 40 people were living in the community, and hundreds were applying to live there, Eric Orwoll, the president of Return to the Land, the private member association that organized the Arkansas community, told CNN.

To live in the community, Orwoll told CNN: “You have to be someone who identifies with your European heritage and ancestry. You have to celebrate traditional European values and we get those values from our religious documents within Christianity, within Norse paganism.” “We do view Jewish origins as having their roots in the near East, and so they wouldn’t fall under the category of European heritage,” Orwoll said last year.

Denying Walker’s application constitutes “blatant and brazen violations of long-standing federal and state fair housing laws,” the complaint states.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/20/us/arkansas-return-to-the-land-discrimination-lawsuit



Link to NAACP Legal Defense Fund PRESS RELEASE - Civil Rights Organizations File Lawsuit Against Whites-Only Housing Development in Arkansas

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Walker-v.-Return-to-the-Land-Complaint.pdf
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nuxvomica

(14,238 posts)
14. Jesus himself couldn't buy land there
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:36 AM
Thursday

Last edited Thu May 21, 2026, 02:06 PM - Edit history (1)

Not European enough.

raging moderate

(4,636 posts)
2. HEY! LOOK AT THIS MAN! HE IS NOT TRULY WHITE! HE IS ONLY BEIGE!
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:19 AM
Thursday

HE SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF THIS COMMUNITY!

The delusional narcissistic fantasies of these people are ridiculous!

JT45242

(4,145 posts)
3. Sinister Six will allow it if it gets to them
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:21 AM
Thursday

They will gut all of the equal opportunity, fair housing, etc. in their effort to return the country to 1855.

Clarence will vote to approve without any sense of irony or shame.

Aristus

(72,548 posts)
7. Hey! Ozark hillbilly morons! If you hate the stereotype so much, don't lean so hard into it.
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:51 AM
Thursday

Just a thought...

70sEraVet

(5,635 posts)
9. "You have to celebrate traditional European values"
Thu May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM
Thursday

The funny part is, most European governments reject his brand of White Supremacy. It's only in the US where the government is growing evermore comfortable with him and his fellow believers.

Martin68

(28,085 posts)
11. This should be interesting. Is Jim Crow going to be completely revived with the blessing of SCOTUS?
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:02 AM
Thursday

Bayard

(30,335 posts)
12. Why would Ms. Walker and her family even want to live there?
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:18 AM
Thursday

Sure, they'd get a warm reception--a cross burning in their front yard.

reACTIONary

(7,309 posts)
13. What took so long? This was exposed....
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:23 AM
Thursday

.... at least a year ago, and the AK AG began "investigating." They are still "investigating." It took a private party from out off state to initiate legal action... a civil suit.

One of the "qualifying questions" for membership in the "community" is "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?"

underpants

(197,246 posts)
18. They were probably trying to find the right litigant
Thu May 21, 2026, 03:14 PM
Thursday

That’s the case in many of these.

in2herbs

(4,547 posts)
15. Part of the lawsuit should include that all residents in that community be subjected to a DNA
Thu May 21, 2026, 01:01 PM
Thursday

test to prove their racist claims!

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