This all sounds about right.
A property developer in a wealthy Connecticut suburb believes his family are the victims of small-town vengeance which saw his son demoted in the local Little League to punish him for threatening the town’s overwhelmingly white ethnic makeup.
Christopher Stefanoni, a 50-year-old from Darien, a town of 21,000 with a median household income of $200,000, says his nine-year old was kicked off his team and put in a lower-ranking one just after he proposed developments involving affordable housing.
According to a lawsuit filed by Stefanoni, locals are so worried at the prospect of the town’s black population – currently 70 people, or 0.33 per cent – getting any bigger that they hit back through the medium of baseball.
As well as his son being booted to a lesser team in the league, Stefanoni was also banned from coaching.
Stefanoni said two proposals were rejected by town officials; a 16-apartment complex with five affordable units, and a 30-apartment one with nine affordable units.
He said: ‘Darien is a little white enclave, sort of a holdout segregated town. The attitudes that people in Darien have are very exclusionary, demeaning.
‘When they go after your kids, they’ve crossed the line’.
Not surprisingly the Justice Department has looked into shady housing dealings of the city, but every time they have conveniently come out with an excuse.
Pretty low to go after his kids just because he wants some diversity in the community.