‘Don’t Want Your Kind Here’: Black Man Fights Legal Battle After Racist Neighbors, Town Leaders Tried to Block Family from Building Home in Wisconsin

‘Don’t Want Your Kind Here’: Black Man Fights Legal Battle After Racist Neighbors, Town Leaders Tried to Block Family from Building Home in Wisconsin

An interracial couple who’ve been trying to build a house in the Village of Bristol, Wisconsin, for seven years while facing legal resistance from local officials and racial harassment from neighbors will have their day in state court next month. Christine Barassi-Jackson, who is white, and Quentin Jackson, who is Black, bought a 5-acre property in the small rural town west of Kenosha in 2018. They hoped to build a four-bedroom log home with a b…