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EQUALITY AND RESPECT BEGIN AT HOME
By
Eric Glazer, Esq.
Published January 16, 2016
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther
King’s birthday, I previously blogged about discrimination and
racism and whether or not they still exist in our Florida
community associations. I won’t do that today. I was going to
write about the fact that segments of the press believes that
Trump won the election because White America rose up against
Obama’s policies. But I won’t. I was going to blog about the
tragedy of Chicago’s black youth growing up in the murder
capital of America and how the Justice Department announced
yesterday that it’s the Chicago Police who are at fault for
using too much force. But I won’t. I was even thinking about
rehashing a prior blog written a few weeks ago about how the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) has
recently issued guidelines for community associations to follow
before rejecting applicants with criminal records – taking into
account the fact that the criminal justice system is stacked
against blacks and Hispanics. But I won’t. Finally, I can talk
instead about the fact that next month is Black History Month,
but I won’t because having certain months of the year designated
to teach only about certain races or religions only serves to
enforce the idea that we are all not somehow “Americans” with a
single history.
In fact, when you look at all of the
government policies and findings that are supposed to somehow
level the playing field and enhance the respect, love and
affection between the races, it appears that the more findings
and policies that the government comes up with, the greater the
likelihood of friction and intolerance.
So today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King,
let’s take National Holidays, National Months, governmental
findings and Presidential speeches and policies out of the
equation. In our community associations, let’s just be good to
our neighbors whatever color, race or religion they are because
that’s how neighbors should behave toward neighbors all the
time. Not just for one day and not just because there’s a
holiday that says we should.
There’s a new President about to be sworn in
on Friday and I’m sure every Republican, Democrat and
Independent among us root for him to do all he can to heal the
present divide. It’s up to each of us however, to make sure that
in our own condominiums and in our own HOAs, we treat each other
with dignity and respect despite the fact we may look different
or worship differently. It’s up to us, not our government, to
teach our own children to do the same thing. We are all each
other’s neighbors and we all owe that to each other.
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About
HOA & Condo Blog
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Eric Glazer graduated from
the University of Miami School of Law in 1992 after
receiving a B.A. from NYU. He has practiced community
association law for more than 2
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decades and is the owner of Glazer
and Associates, P.A. a seven attorney law firm with offices in
Fort Lauderdale and Orlando and satellite offices in Naples,
Fort Myers and Tampa.
Since 2009, Eric has been the host
of Condo Craze and HOAs, a weekly one hour radio show that airs
at noon each Sunday on 850 WFTL.
See:
www.condocrazeandhoas.com.
He is the first attorney in the
State of Florida that designed a course that certifies
condominium residents as eligible to serve on a condominium
Board of Directors and has now certified more than 10,000
Floridians all across the state. He is certified as a Circuit
Court Mediator by The Florida Supreme Court and has mediated
dozens of disputes between associations and unit owners. Eric
also devotes significant time to advancing legislation in the
best interest of Florida community association members.
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