Posted on 04/07/2016 10:17:27 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
President Barack Obamas administration showed Tuesday that he wants to pressure landlords to ignore the criminal records of would-be renters.
One inevitable result is that many law-abiding renters including many African-Americans will be forced to unknowingly live alongside felons they wish to avoid.
According to Obamas Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the disparate impact theory of racism says landlords are racists if they have a color-blind practice of excluding all felons from their buildings. That color-bind practice is racist, say progressives, because it has a greater impact on African-Americans than on whites.
It has a greater impact on African-Americans because blacks tend to commit crimes at a higher rate than whites, according to federal data.
HUD said in its new guidelines released this week:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Felons are one of the Democrats most reliable voting blocks. The others are illegal aliens and dead people.
Dead people lives matter!
Hoping the gross pics won't be posted. Miley Cyrus is bad enough; I don't want to see Barack the First's face on her body.
Felons are a “race” now?
This is incredibly racist. Are they suggesting that felons are a race?
Being a felon is now a race? This guy is an entirely new definition of stupid.
Never knowingly rent to a criminal or a lawyer!
Crazy thinking. Something Valerie Garrett would say. But, but not in HIS backyard tho!
It is racist, but liberals don’t think racism counts when they are the ones being racist.
It’s remarkable that he claims blacks commit so much more crime that the totally neutral ( and prudent) running of criminal checks is necessarily “racist” if they’re run on those rental applicants who happen to be black. Sorry, Obama, but it would be racist NOT to run checks on just one race of applicants. Your argument falls apart — and it’s seriously demeaning, insulting to black people for you to assume that they’re all or mostly criminals.
“Felons are a race now?”
Nope, just one more victim class.
That may be redundant. But good advice
Obama thus insisting that felons are overwhelmingly non-white. How racist of him.
Wasn’t there an Eddie Murphy SNL skit where he reads a poem aloud while in prison titled “Kill My Landlord, Kill My Landlord”?
[[ Landlords Are Racists if They Exclude Felons from Housing]]
Why is that? Is dear leader suggesting that only black folks and minorities are felons?
dear leader must be racist for not inviting felons to live with him and his family
Why don’t we make the felons landlords?
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