HUD Taking Social Engineering to a New Level

Fox's Chris Stirewalt has an article below which he discussed on Fox News TV today. It concerns Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan's speech to the NAACP on July 16, in which he revealed that his agency, using census data, will be pushing neighborhoods and communities to affirmatively seek more residents from "protected" classes.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/23/team-obama-steps-up-racial-standards-for-neighborhoods/

Here is the HUD announcement on their website:

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2013/HUDNo.13-110

Here is the text of Donovan's speech before the NAACP on July 16:


http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/speeches_remarks_statements/2013/Speech_071613

How big can this government become under Barack Obama?

It has been over 40 years since the courts ordered forced busing to remedy the fact that our neighborhoods in big cities were de facto segregated. The answer, they decided was to take kids of all races and bus them across town to schools far from where they lived. It still exists in Los Angeles under the decrepit and corrupt LA Unified School District. Yet the neighborhoods have remained pretty much divided by race (although where I lived in WLA was pretty integrated with the exception of African-Americans. Most of them lived in South Central or the Venice area in the west. It was at Venice High School where I was first exposed to black peers.

Aside from the issue of big government engineering, here is my objection to what HUD wants to do. First of all, it has little to nothing to do with actual discrimination.Realty laws as to racial discrimination are quite strong and efforts to keep any minority out of a community can be swiftly addressed legally. I have no problem with that. Anyone who has the means to live in a particular neighborhood should never be excluded. Orange County doesn't have that many African-Americans, but most other minorities abound. Those African-Americans who live in  nice neighborhoods are there because they are in the upper middle economic class and can afford the homes. (There was, in fact, one outrageous case of a black couple, both cops, moving out of their OC neighborhood because of harassment.)

However, if the federal government decides that a community doesn't have the required number of a certain protected group as residents even though there have been no complaints of exclusion or discrimination, how will they (HUD) bring this about?  The clear answer to me is that they will bring in low-income housing. That will change the demographics not only racially, but socio-economically as well. That should be resisted.

So now we know why we had those intrusive questions about race on the last census. Of course, no word on what they are going to do about Detroit.