Reply #29: Agree this discussion is overheated, but there IS something uniquely sleezy about this ...

[HamdenRice]

Racially restrictive covenants became unenforceable nation wide in 1949, when the Supreme Court decided Shelly v. Kraemer.

So you are right, that these clauses are simply historical relics that stayed in the covenants and have no effect whatsoever.

But there is something especially sleezy about this one because as the OP says, the original covenant was dates after 1949.

So, this covenant was designed as a big, southern, "fuck you" to the yankee Supreme Court -- in other words, it was already just a racist symbolic gesture at the time it was drafted.