A rural Arkansas organization with white supremacist ties is the target of a new federal lawsuit brought by a white Christian woman who says the group turned down her land purchase application on the basis of her Jewish heritage, her husband's African descent, and her children's mixed-race backgrounds, NBC News reported.
The complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Northern Division, names the Return to the Land organization as defendant; that group runs a community of roughly 40 residents in Ravenden, Arkansas. Walker, who works as a real estate broker in the St. Louis metropolitan area, brought the case with backing from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
According to the complaint, RTTL's explicit goal is the creation of an exclusively white community; Walker alleges the group's founders hold that white people are racially superior and push for the formation of a segregated white nation state as a safeguard against what they call "white genocide." On its website, the organization describes itself as a private membership association for individuals with "traditional views and common continental ancestry."
The application included questions probing Walker's ancestry and religious beliefs, she said. In responding, Walker indicated that her mother's side of the family emigrated from Russia as Jewish immigrants, that her husband carries both Irish and African heritage, and that her children reflect that combined background. When no decision arrived after roughly a month, Walker contacted RTTL and received word that approval was unlikely. No further communication followed, according to the complaint, and the status listed on her application portal eventually indicated she was "not an ideal fit" for the community.
