The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident as a hate crime after a Black San Leandro homeowner reported that someone painted “No Black” on her fence.
Sonia Reed, 52, purchased her first home on Upland Road in an unincorporated neighborhood in the foothills east of San Leandro in December, and said she has since been harassed by neighbors. The formerly homeless grandmother said neighbors have told her they don’t want Black people to live in the neighborhood, and have called her racial slurs.
But, Reed said, the harassment escalated last week when she discovered that someone had painted “No Black” on the white wooden fence surrounding her home…