The Daily Populous Friday May 22nd, 2026 morning edition
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A white supremacist group faces a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a real estate broker who says she was barred from purchasing property in their rural Arkansas community because of her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.

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Michelle Walker, who is also white and Christian, alleges in her complaint that the Return to the Land organization rejected her application because it “is explicitly attempting to establish an all-white community.”

“Its founders believe that white people are genetically superior to other races, advance the view that Jewish people are engaged in a plot to eliminate the white race, and advocate for segregated white communities for the purpose of creating a separate all-white nation state that will help avoid ‘white genocide,’” her complaint says.

Return to the Land did not immediately respond to the lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Northern Division.

In a interview with NBC News in July, group co-founder Eric Orwoll made it clear that only white people are welcome in their 40-member community in Ravenden, Arkansas.

“What we’ve done here is establish a place where we have control over who our neighbors are,” Orwoll said. “And that is just for the sake of preserving, you know, our culture ... white American culture.”

Grutenfreenooder on May 21st, 2026 at 22:49 UTC »

Why would somebody even want to join if they had a black husband?

Constant-Skill-7133 on May 21st, 2026 at 19:31 UTC »

And in that culture, we wear shoes with square toes to church. Round toes for home or work, but square is for God.

Skipadee2 on May 21st, 2026 at 19:06 UTC »

Eric saying he wants to “preserve white American culture” alongside the photo of him in his “house” which looks like plywood nailed together into a house shape with a college boy’s room setup inside…

Looks to me like they created this “community” because they’d get upset when they’d see non-white people with nicer houses than them.