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The Obama administration is so intent on making sure that neighborhoods are racially integrated that it is using the lack of "minorities" in a given community as an excuse to not disperse federal funds that would otherwise go into city, county, and state coffers.
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And the Obama administration’s HUD initiated solution to this supposed discrimination and unfair ladder rung climbing…drum roll please…old-fashioned block-busting (or ‘Social Engineering’ as their proponents like to call it) of white neighborhoods on a grand scale…meaning that wherever white people live, NO matter the income level, there has to be the right racial mix...
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Using Westchester county, the fourth most racially diverse county in New York state according to the 2010 census and also one of the wealthiest, as the test case, HUD used majority white neighborhoods as evidence that the county somehow discriminated against blacks, thus allowing the Obama administration to sue the county for allegedly violating the terms of their HUD grants…overlooking the fact that anyone could live there who could afford to buy there with racial discrimination playing NO part in the demographics
People should be able to live where ever they want. This is a free country last time I checked.
I don't know what's going on in New York but there is still a lot of discrimination going on in older established cities.
Just because a person is poor doesn't mean they don't make good neighbors, shouldn't have access to quality schools, grocery stores and services.
If the President is serious about making things better for everyone he will have to make decisions like this to give people the exposure to improve their lives.
People should be able to live where ever they want. This is a free country last time I checked.
I don't know what's going on in New York but there is still a lot of discrimination going on in older established cities.
Just because a person is poor doesn't mean they don't make good neighbors, shouldn't have access to quality schools, grocery stores and services.
If the President is serious about making things better for everyone he will have to make decisions like this to give people the exposure to improve their lives.
Uh, anyone who wishes to live anywhere they wish is free to do so.
How exactly do you see the this policy doing anything useful?
John Edwards ran on this idea and at the time I thought it would go no where. His idea no matter what the cost to HUD the gvt would move minorities from the ghetto to better neighborhoods. If we get a {R} president maybe they could fix this with a EO, you know what goes around comes around.
It must be another slow news day for the right wing. The article was from last year and it didnt cite any sources for their information other than comments made at the NAACP convention.
This thread loses its steam when people realize these key points.
People should be able to live where ever they want. This is a free country last time I checked.
I don't know what's going on in New York but there is still a lot of discrimination going on in older established cities.
Just because a person is poor doesn't mean they don't make good neighbors, shouldn't have access to quality schools, grocery stores and services.
If the President is serious about making things better for everyone he will have to make decisions like this to give people the exposure to improve their lives.
I don't disagree with the premise of your argument, but let me correct the first sentence so it reads more accurately.
People should be able to live where ever they want, as long as they can afford it. (I want to live on a private island surrounded by a bevy of supermodels in bikinis who think I am the greatest thing since hot apple pie and ice cream, but just because I want it, doesn't mean I can do it). This also means if they wish to segregate themselves as people tend to do, they should be allowed to as long as they are not refusing to allow OTHER people of OTHER religions, race/background/political persuasion/sex/ sexual orientation/ nationality/or whatever the hell else makes each of us different from one another.
As for the rest of your statement, I have seen beautiful schools turned to trash, because forcing OTHER people to go there when they don't want to means they don't care about the school. I have never seen someone turned away from a grocery store, and if you can pay for services, there is ALWAYS someone willing to provide them.
Lastly, it's not the President's job to make things better for everyone. It's his job to lead the country, protect the borders and see that congress enforces the constitution. He's a representative from us to foreign nations, he's not to make decisions the give people exposure to improve their lives. THAT's the job of each locality/city/state.
It must be another slow news day for the right wing. The article was from last year and it didnt cite any sources for their information other than comments made at the NAACP convention.
The HUD blackmail is currently taking place.
Did you really summarily dismiss any comments made at an NAACP convention?
Did you really summarily dismiss any comments made at an NAACP convention?
Do you have proof of that besides some random comments?
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