Greenwich Official Acknowledges Beach Bias Towards "those people"

A group of hispanic and black female Greenwich residents, including two wives of NY Mets Bonnlla and Foster, claim they were denied entry to Greenwich beach because of their skin color. The women had organized a summer exercise program with other black and hispanic women complete with a white professional trainer.

This past June, the women and their trainer were denied entry to the beach. The trainer, Jason Hall, wrote a letter to the Greenwich town's affirmative action Officer Kelly Houston, who happens to be black. In his complaint he noted that other resident exercise groups he's led were never denied beach access and turned away. The other exercise groups were all white and accessed the accessed the beach under similar circumstances. He wanted to know why this hispanic/black resident group were denied access.

Officer Houston, investigated the matter and cleared Greenwich employees of wrongdoing. She concluded that they were simply enforcing the rules. This appeared to be the end of the case until the emails were found.

These newly discovered emails tell a completely different story. On June 8, one day after the trainers' initial compliant Officer Houston responded via email:

"I would love to tell you, you are wrong, but I am positive that you are not" "Understand this is not intentional. These men are just conditioned (sic) to see white people on the beach all the time. So yes, when there is a few (3-4) black people together they take notice."

Houston told the trainer a smaller group of minorities would be preferred.

"Seeing a group of Black people that they do not know is going to draw attention""I do think that you can use the facilities. However you will have to be discreet and if you are asked you are going to have to say you are just working out with friends. If you are doing a black group, you are going to need to cut your numbers down. Welcome to Greenwich!"

WOW. The town's affirmative action officer, Kelly Houston, whom after investigating and clearing the town of any wrong doing is then caught affirming the racial bias by beach employees.

The plot thickens when you realize that not only is Houston black and wanted to join the group, but that her husband is the NAACP Greenwich office president.

What's going on here? Certainly not the truth. Is there collusion between Houston and her NAACP husband to "expose" Greenwich or is Houston trying to set up Greenwich or is this a political patronage job given to Houston who is either incompetant or targeting someone/something in Greenwich or is Houston jealous and seeking revenge because they wouldn't let her join their group?

On thing is for sure: Greenwichs' beach access is designed to keep out non-residents whom Greenwich considers to be non-whites.

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