“A case decided by the Supreme Court seventy-five years ago. It knocked down racial and ethnic covenants and restrictions on the sale of property. Jews, Blacks, Chinese — after that ruling, they could buy anywhere, live anywhere they liked. Of course, it still took a lot of courage. That same year Nat King Cole bought a house in Hancock Park and the bigots burned a cross on his lawn.” Bosch just nodded. I stayed up on the soapbox. “Anyway, back then the Court was moving us forward. Toward the Great Society and all that. Now it seems to want to move us back.”
