A group of Grosse Pointe residents went on record today as strongly opposing the “point system” used to bar Jews and other “undesirables” from the exclusive area as “an affront to the standards of decency in human relations.”
The group expressed its views in a letter to Corporations and Securities Commissioner Lawrence Gubow who is holding hearings on the Grosse Pointe housing bias practices. It commended the commission for “searching out the truth.”
The signatories to the letter said they “hold firmly to the belief that racial, religion and national prejudices have no place in our democracy.”
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