Vouchers available for housing in white areas

The Dallas Morning News ^ | 08/11/2008 | Kim Horner

[Trajan88]

The Dallas Housing Authority begins accepting online applications today for court-ordered rental assistance available to black residents who want to live in predominantly white neighborhoods.

The DHA is required to offer the vouchers only to blacks as part of a court settlement to address past discrimination....

[Trajan88]

Only one race is allowed to be "poor?"

[ikka]

I wonder if any black people are showing up in the rich areas, saying “gee, this is a nice area you got here, would be a shame if the neighborhood took a dive, wouldn’t it? If you were to pay me $1000 I could well decide to move somewhere else .... “

[xc1427]

What if a person from Appalachia wants to move to Dallas? Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yes only one race is officially poor.

Maybe they will also give vouchers to the white people who want to live in a black neighborhood in Section 8 housing.

[Trajan88]

This smacks of the beginnings of reparations.

Will avalanch if the chosen one (aka B.H.O.) attains higher office.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit

[Centurion2000]

The Dallas Housing Authority begins accepting online applications today for court-ordered rental assistance available to black residents who want to live in predominantly white neighborhoods.

The DHA is required to offer the vouchers only to blacks as part of a court settlement to address past discrimination....

WTF????

[Dilbert San Diego]

Reparations are coming if Obama is elected.

There is a bill introduced by John Conyers in the past few Congress, to study and examine the impact of slavery on American society, and on the descendents of slaves. And that impact includes what happened after slavery up to the present time.

That bill is officially just to study the impact of slavery and make recommendations, but I think we all know that the recommendations will be that the appropriate remedy is reparations to be paid. If Obama is elected and the Dems. in Congress know the bill will be signed into law, they will do it.

I find it very ironic that we’re navel gazing about slavery reparations, when there is strong evidence that slavery continues in some parts of the world. Why don’t they work toward ending slavery and involuntary servitude in parts of the world where it is still tolerated, rather than punish an America that abolished slavery, and eventually abolished legal segregation and discrimination?

[Drew68]

WTF????

My thoughts exactly. And I loved how they buried this story as a blurb in the "Regional Roundup" section.

Um, did I miss something? What court settlement are they talking about?

[Drew68]

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit

Sounds like an April Fool's joke.

Sadly, I don't think it's either.

[randomhero97]

As others have said, this country will burn if that comes to pass.

[weegee]

I want a voucher for a suite in the governor’s mansion. Only seems fair that politicians should have to share their housing too.

[ANGGAPO]

Perhaps our friends in Dallas should review the situation in Baltimore before they jump into this move?

[Freedom4US]

"Why don’t they work toward ending slavery and involuntary servitude in parts of the world where it is still tolerated, rather than punish an America that abolished slavery, and eventually abolished legal segregation and discrimination?"

That's easy - because those countries don't give a rip about what anybody else thinks, they'll kill you if they get a chance if you even try, politically and by any other measure there is no enthusiasm to go after those asshats and they prolly don't have any money anyway? Sorta like, notice Ghandi woulda got roasted by the Nazis or Siberia'd by the Communists, et. al. He knew enough to run his operation in a nominally civilized country. It won't work in a totalitarian regime.

[exDemMom]

What if a person from Appalachia wants to move to Dallas? Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

Excuse me, is that not a bit stereotypical? I'm speaking as one who is in the middle of a move from a nice middle class town in the Appalachians in MD, to a nice middle class town near San Antonio.

[xc1427]

You have exactly made my point. Financially poor whites in Appalachiahave been ignored during America’s “welfare movement.”

[TheDon]

Yes Johnny, two wrongs do make a right! Sigh....

[mouse1]

As long as you have affirmative action, quotas, apologies and “deeds not words”, the black community will never live up to their full potential and always have a sense of entitlement.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...as part of a court settlement to address past discrimination...

My Irish ancestors were victims of "past discrimination". Can I have some free stuff too?