So, Jeff points out that HUD is out to break up all those ethnic enclaves where people voluntarily congregate —
As in Southern California – Garden Grove: Little Saigon, Glendale: Armenian, Gardena: Japanese, Chinatown, Koreatown & Olvera Street and others in Los Angeles. Indeed, will HUD force the breakup of the Leimert Park Village* area, which has evolved over the last 60 years as an African-America cultural center (in 1930’s-60’s it was a white neighborhood)?
Just what tools will they bring to the table for this? Will Kelo v New London be used to gather all private property in the non-complying neighborhoods into The State’s very ample bosom, where living quarters will be distributed on a “fair” basis?
Yeah, that’ll work.
*(Maybe the HUD rulers will gift me back my grandparents’ home on 4th Avenue? You know, so we can lighten up the neighborhood into a NannyState-approved mocha color.)
On the plus side:
We should be seeing an adjustment to the Illinois ROE to support the CIC intent.
Weapons free, Fire at will!
– I envision a political cartoon commemorating this idiocy with a pic of a very large ethnic neighborhood labled elephant, and a HUD mouse with a microscopic dickey, advancing on dumbo with a gleem its its eye.
– Ummmm, I think its going to be a looooong summer.
California is pretty eclectic neighborhood-wise. I lived in Little Saigon in San Diego 25 years ago.
– Linda Vista?
No. I lived on 51st and El Cajon Blvd. I lived several other places in town, but that was the first place I had.
– ahh, the “other” little Saigon, south of rt#8. Used to be some great ethnic restaurants in that area, and a couple of great Jewish Deli’s too.
I loved it there. It was quiet and clean and had great restaurants and a fish market that sold live fish in tanks. I have a lot of Japanese friends and this was a little different since the language is impossible, at least for me. Pointing and miming at the dry cleaners was fun, too.
The Jewish delis and the like were further north in Hillcrest.
Well, one I can think of off the top of my head: white borrowers will be denied FHA mortgage insurance for properties in predominately white neighborhoods, while equally-qualified black (or Hispanic) applicants will be approved.
Oh, HUD-owned foreclosed homes in white suburbs will be made available to minority buyers, but not whites. Or buyers’ incentives for minorities only. Utterly unconstitutional, but who cares about that stuff anymore…
Fannie and Freddie will have a diversity factor which adjusts home loan interest rates according to how much diversity a certain buyer adds or subtracts from the neighborhood where they are buying a home.
HUD will offer incentive bonuses and awards to real estate agents whose buyers and sellers increase the diversity of neighborhoods.
IRS will treat home loan interest deductions differently according to the diversity of the neighborhood that the home is in.
Plus Spiny’s above.
There is no end of good that can be accomplished spending Other People’s Money, as long as those doing the spending get to decide what is considered “good”.
Or at least “fair”.
Which (obviously) excludes anyone not an openly proud member of a Politically-Approved Victim Group. Failing to toe the Official Line (as defined by those same groups) is prima facie evidence and proof that alleged membership in that group is instantly revoked and any Moral High Ground presumed by other members of that group does not transfer.
For the Public Good. (See above.)
the power of the powerless page 199
“Various forms of police activity, therefore, have always appeared in utter secrecy even before power was seized,
and subsequently, the police apparatus has expanded to such an unprecedented degree,
partly because the official ideology contains nothing to inhibit such a development.
The material, and ultimately the moral, burden that this places on society has no prec- edent in history.
To make this burden bearable, the totalitarian state has had to raise the policing function to one of the
greatest virtues. In television films and propaganda programmes, it is no longer a worker or a party secretary who
embodies all the finest human qualities, but a cop. The vast amounts of energy spent on main- taining ‘order’,
however, contribute nothing to the development of society because its sole purpose isto prevent change. This is
also the regime’s main concern, and in recent decades it has been ostenta- tiously stressing those aspects of the
ideology. Life without change is unattainable, of course, but it ispossible to permit only unavoidable changes,
changes that can be approved of and ‘vindicated’ after they have already happened on their own and can no longer be
kept a secret.
charter 77
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Overly black neighborhoods are only a concern when they are poor ones. Do they care about poor/depressed white nieghborhoods? Are they going to start moving blacks there (say – moving blacks into Hamtramck, which is predominately arab now?) No. They’re going to attempt to push them into Grosse Pointe.
Not – Birmingham, though, because the liberal minded people out there are not rassist and thus … shut up.
I sorta actually will get a kick out of this battle.
Hamtramck? Isn’t that where one guy running for mayor wants a twelve foot wall (I guess he’ll put in the moat and drawbridge later) around the burrough to keep out the darkies?
That’s Little Arabia, I believe.
Can’t wait to see how the residents of Malibu and Bel Air respond.
I am sure the Obama donors in Palo Alto, CA will welcome their brothers from the East side of Highway 101 into the neighborhood.
Malibu already has their response down pat. But they need not worry, it is the hated bourgeoisie that will be targeted for extinction in this campaign.
Didn’t the last Batman movie sort of address this issue? Of course, their methodology was a little unclear about where the next generation of OWS howlers will sleep.
In your living room, Charles. Just you wait.
i still use my armenian drycleaners over by my old job
but after the bank thing and two car-buying experiences I tend to shy away from making new armo pals
i love my drycleaners more than beans
my resolution this year was to switch as much of my custom to burbank as I could
but there’s no drycleaners in Burbank what compares
they’re either all studio studio or completely burbtarded
but grocery liquor gas and et cetera I get in burbank now
also sporting goods and this decorative bamboo thing
and a lamp from bb&b
and picture framing services
I need to find an oil change place over there is my next thing