{"id":1982,"date":"2015-08-29T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2024-05-12T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T20:19:26","slug":"motel-in-heart-of-la-exclude-colored-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Motel in Heart of LA Exclude &#8220;colored people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/up.anv.bz\/latest\/anvload.html?key=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\"  width =\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPOSITION PARK (CBSLA.com)<\/strong> \u2014 A former employee of a motel in Exposition Park expressed outrage over a sign she says was put up that informed employees not to rent certain rooms to \u201ccolored people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Please do not rent the following rooms to the colored people,\u2019 in the exact words, \u2018to the colored people.\u2019 I wanted to flip,\u201d said Teresa Hoffman of the sign she says was placed at the EC Motel.<\/p>\n<p>The sign read: \u201cPlease do not rent the following rooms to the colored people. \u2018No overnight\u2019 &amp; \u2018No short stay\u2019, or \u2018Weekly rooms\u2019 \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman says she read the sign on her first day as a front desk clerk Aug. 2. She said the room numbers on the sign referred to the bigger, cleaner, remodeled rooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re discriminating against race. It\u2019s not right. We are in Los Angeles, California. This is 2015. It\u2019s predominantly an African-American neighborhood,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman says she asked the manager why the sign was put up.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was told \u201cbecause they had a problem with some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Hoffman complained about it the next day, she said the manager took it down.<\/p>\n<p>But, she says, when she came back to work on Aug. 9 with her husband James, Hoffman said the owner came by, greeted her quickly, then left minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot even five minutes later, the manager\u2019s calling the motel saying the owner does not want me working there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why she believes she was terminated, Hoffman said: \u201cBecause my husband is black, my significant other is black, and because I questioned their sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manager was off Monday, but CBS2 reached out to him for comment. That call wasn\u2019t returned. He did, however, call Hoffman while a news crew was with her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re right here. Would you like to speak to them,\u201d Hoffman asked. CBS2\u2019s Rachel Kim spoke with the manager, Leon, over the phone who didn\u2019t deny the sign was put up.<\/p>\n<p>But, as Kim reports, he was very hesitant to speak and said any other information would need to come from his boss.<\/p>\n<p>Leon and another motel employee told Kim they would pass along the news station\u2019s contact information to the owners. CBS2 has not heard back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VR-colored-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1984 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VR-colored-people-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"VR - colored people\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VR-colored-people-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/historeplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VR-colored-people-250x138.jpg 250w, https:\/\/historeplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/VR-colored-people.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; EXPOSITION PARK (CBSLA.com) \u2014 A former employee of a motel in Exposition Park expressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,14,13,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-featured","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-racism","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}