{"id":7595,"date":"2013-07-22T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T12:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2013-07-22T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:00:41","slug":"renting-apartments-to-africans-strictly-forbidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7595","title":{"rendered":"Renting apartments to Africans strictly forbidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7596\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/casablanca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7596\" alt=\"Renting apartments to Blacks is strictly forbidden\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/casablanca-300x184.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/casablanca-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/casablanca.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renting apartments to Blacks is strictly forbidden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cRenting apartments to Africans is strictly forbidden\u201d. This message hangs in several building lobbies in Casablanca, Morocco. Some landlords have been enforcing this rule, even though it is completely illegal. Our Observer, a student from the Ivory Coast, experienced this discrimination firsthand a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Several photos of these posters, written in both French and Arabic, have been circulating on social networks over the past few days. According to our Observers, the photos were taken in buildings in the residential Farah Essalam neighbourhood in the Oulfa area, where many students from sub-Saharan Africa live. Similar posters have also been reported in other parts of town.<\/p>\n<p>While Morocco is located in northern Africa, many Moroccans don&#8217;t consider themselves &#8220;Africans&#8221;, a term they generally use to refer to sub-Saharan Africans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Discrimination against Africans has been firmly rooted here. Not all relationships with Moroccans are this confrontational, but life is definitely more unpleasant if you\u2019re black. Personally, I\u2019ve had stones thrown at me on the street several times, sometimes even fruit, depending on the person\u2019s mood,&#8221; says a student from the Ivory Coast. &#8211; France24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRenting apartments to Africans is strictly forbidden\u201d. This message hangs in several building lobbies in Casablanca, Morocco. Some landlords have been enforcing this rule, even though it is completely illegal. Our Observer, a student from the Ivory Coast, experienced this discrimination firsthand a few months ago. Several photos of these posters, written in both French &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renting apartments to Africans strictly forbidden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[4138,4136,4137,157],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-arabic-countries","tag-casablanca","tag-morocco","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/casablanca.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}