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Obama: Landlords Are Racists if They Exclude Felons from Housing
Breitbart ^ | 4-5-2016 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 04/07/2016 10:17:27 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

President Barack Obama’s 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 Obama’s 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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: felons; housing; hud; landlords; racist
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An attack on our civil society as always by the human wrecking ball.
1 posted on 04/07/2016 10:17:27 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Felons are one of the Democrats most reliable voting blocks. The others are illegal aliens and dead people.


2 posted on 04/07/2016 10:21:10 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Dead people lives matter!


3 posted on 04/07/2016 10:21:51 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: sheikdetailfeather

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.

4 posted on 04/07/2016 10:22:08 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Felons are a “race” now?


5 posted on 04/07/2016 10:22:54 AM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: Pollster1

This is incredibly racist. Are they suggesting that felons are a race?


6 posted on 04/07/2016 10:23:34 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Being a felon is now a race? This guy is an entirely new definition of stupid.


7 posted on 04/07/2016 10:23:35 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Never knowingly rent to a criminal or a lawyer!


8 posted on 04/07/2016 10:23:49 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Crazy thinking. Something Valerie Garrett would say. But, but not in HIS backyard tho!


9 posted on 04/07/2016 10:24:46 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Vehmgericht

It is racist, but liberals don’t think racism counts when they are the ones being racist.


10 posted on 04/07/2016 10:25:05 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

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.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 10:25:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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“Felons are a “race” now?”

Nope, just one more victim class.


12 posted on 04/07/2016 10:25:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: JimRed

That may be redundant. But good advice


13 posted on 04/07/2016 10:25:54 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Obama, let a few felons move into the White House, after all, it is The Peoples House.
14 posted on 04/07/2016 10:27:17 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Obama thus insisting that felons are overwhelmingly non-white. How racist of him.


15 posted on 04/07/2016 10:27:32 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Wasn’t there an Eddie Murphy SNL skit where he reads a poem aloud while in prison titled “Kill My Landlord, Kill My Landlord”?


16 posted on 04/07/2016 10:28:21 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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[[ Landlords Are Racists if They Exclude Felons from Housing]]

Why is that? Is dear leader suggesting that only black folks and minorities are felons?


17 posted on 04/07/2016 10:28:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: sheikdetailfeather

dear leader must be racist for not inviting felons to live with him and his family


18 posted on 04/07/2016 10:29:15 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bubba_Leroy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGx3IA7oXho


19 posted on 04/07/2016 10:30:08 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Why don’t we make the felons landlords?


20 posted on 04/07/2016 10:30:46 AM PDT by JmyBryan
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