Can a business under the California Civil Rights Act discriminate against a black tenant?

In Winchell v. English, supra, 62 Cal.App.3d 125, 127, 133 Cal.Rptr. 20, the court found the plaintiffs had stated a cause of action under the Act by alleging the following: "Defendants, operators of a mobile home court, who had given plaintiffs, members of the white race and their tenants of a mobile home space, permission to subrent to others, discriminated against plaintiffs when, and because, they subrented the space to, and associated with, persons of the black race." The defendants argued a business establishment could not discriminate against someone on the basis of race but under the Act was not prohibited from discriminating "against persons on account of their association with others of the black race, ..." (Id., 62 Cal.App.3d at p. 128, 133 Cal.Rptr. 20.) The opinion does not describe the alleged discrimination. However,

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