California Family Receives Racist Letter: "This Is Not The Ghetto"

An interracial family in northern California say they were targeted by an anonymous racist letter that warned them to leave their new home.

The letter told the Vacaville family to move out before they got them "evicted" from the home they purchased last year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Marc Yu posted a photo of the letter to Facebook shortly after discovering it in his mailbox last week.

"It’s 2019. This is what came in the mail sticking out my mailbox. I own my home so I can’t wait for them to contact the “Landlord.” I can’t believe this sh** still happens," Yu wrote.

Yu, who is Filipino and Chinese, and his wife Sandy, who is Mexican, purchased the two-bedroom home in Vacaville, California and moved in last November with their five kids.

"The community is making this request that you find another place to live," the letter states. "Renters like yourself cannot possibly afford a home in our area. We maintain higher standards that allow us to maintain the value of our homes which as renters you will never understand.

"This is not the ghetto," the letter states.

"We may sound harsh, but your interracial family is not welcome here. We will contact your landlord and tell them to evict you if you don't vacate in the next 60 days," the anonymous letter-writer states.

The 43-year-old father of five said his family received another anonymous letter about two months ago that complained about the state of their yard, but that one wasn't as "condescending." Yu says the prior owners of the home hadn't been maintaining the yard and it had grown over with weeds and he had been too busy to make all the necessary improvements since moving into the home. At one point, a code inspector showed up and the family cleaned out some of the items.

Once the letter began going viral on social media, many of Yu's neighbors knocked on the family's doors to let them know they were in fact welcome in the neighborhood.

Vacaville police took a report, and called the letter "disturbing and disappointing," but it did not rise to the level of a criminal violation or hate crime.

Yu says it was a 'stupid letter' and that the culprit probably got the message to "not harass us anymore and just leave us alone" after it went viral.