Hate Is Having To Say You're Sorry

Viewers of Roy E. Frankhouser's white supremacist cable program will get a surprising message at the end of the May 19 broadcast -- an on-air apology from the former Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan leader to a fair-housing activist he harassed out of the state.

The apology is part of a settlement Frankhouser, 60, reached with federal officials in a discrimination suit filed on behalf of Bonnie Jouhari, a former fair-housing specialist at the Reading-Berks Human Relations Council in Reading, Pa.

Jouhari was to join Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo and the Rev. Jesse Jackson at a press conference Thursday to announce the settlement. The agreement also includes racial sensitivity training, 1,000 hours of community service and the display of a fair-housing poster outside Frankhouser's home.

In January 1998, Jouhari was responsible for helping victims of housing discrimination file complaints when she says two men labeled her a "race traitor," and harassed her to the point that she and her 16-year-old daughter fled Pennsylvania to Washington state.

One man, Ryan Wilson, was charged with violating the Fair Housing Act by posting threats on a Web site he ran, including an animated picture of Jouhari's office being blown up.

The site has since been removed from the Web under court order.

Jouhari's complaint was the first Internet hate case HUD has pursued under the Fair Housing Act.

As part of the agreement, Frankhouser may never refer to Jouhari or her daughter on his television show and must stay at least 100 feet away from them for the rest of his life.

After Jouhari appeared on a television program about hate groups in Berks County in early 1998, her picture appeared on the Web site of ALPHA HQ, which describes itself as "the racial, political/paramilitary arm of the Aryan people." The caption branded her "a race traitor" who eventually would be "hung from the neck from the nearest tree or lamppost."

When Dani, her biracial daughter from a previous marriage, began receiving threats eight months later, they headed west.

As she was prepring to leave, ALPHA HQ was hit with a Pennsylvania state lawsuit that accused the group of publishing terroristic threats, ethnic intimidation and harassing messages.

The state won by default in December 1998 when the defendants failed to show up in court, but by then Jouhari and her daughter were living in Silverdale, Wash.

Anonymous death threats followed them and they moved again, this time finding sanctuary with the family of a pastor in south King County, between Seattle and Tacoma.

Last September they moved into their own apartment. Jouhari has found temporary work and her daughter is a high school senior.

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