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Obama administration to unveil major new rules targeting segregation across U.S.
The Washington Post ^ | 07/08/2015 | Emily Badger

Posted on 07/08/2015 4:51:37 AM PDT by ThomasMore

CHICAGO -- When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine. It also required the government to go one step further — to actively dismantle segregation and foster integration in its place — a mandate that for decades has been largely forgotten, neglected and unenforced.

Now, on Wednesday, the Obama administration will announce long-awaited rules designed to repair the law’s unfulfilled promise and promote the kind of racially integrated neighborhoods that have long eluded deeply segregated cities like Chicago and Baltimore. The new rules, a top demand of civil-rights groups, will require cities and towns all over the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and to publicly report, every three to five years, the results. Communities will also have to set goals, which will be tracked over time, for how they will further reduce segregation.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; segregation
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To: ThomasMore

This is so ridiculous it’s almost unbelievable but nothing is too absurd to happen in the current environment.


21 posted on 07/08/2015 5:04:44 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: ThomasMore

Are we to assume that one is racist if they don’t want to raise their family in a black neighborhood?


22 posted on 07/08/2015 5:04:44 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: ThomasMore

This is so ridiculous it’s almost unbelievable but nothing is too absurd to happen in the current environment.


23 posted on 07/08/2015 5:05:13 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: ThomasMore

“the Obama administration will announce long-awaited rules”

“require cities and towns all over the country to scrutinize their housing patterns for racial bias and to publicly report, every three to five years, the results. Communities will also have to set goals, which will be tracked over time, for how they will further reduce segregation.”

Under what authority?

Welcome to fascism.


24 posted on 07/08/2015 5:06:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Job? What’s a job? And how does that relate to a house? Laugh, but work is divorced from income and the less income you have the more likely the government will kick in for you to have a house.


25 posted on 07/08/2015 5:07:50 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: kenmcg

According to this article, even black people don’t want to raise their families in black neighbourhoods.


26 posted on 07/08/2015 5:09:07 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Sir Napsalot

This is about extorting money through fines from virtually every municipality in the country, nothing else.

This will finally put the federal government completely into every facet of our lives right down to the local level.


27 posted on 07/08/2015 5:09:16 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: envisio
The whites and the civilized law abiding citizens will exit to find their own safe place....

Tsk... tsk... We are going to have to take away your car and your mobility on behalf of the common good.

28 posted on 07/08/2015 5:09:24 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: lowbridge

Thanks to the Scumpreme Court ruling.


29 posted on 07/08/2015 5:10:29 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Diogenesis

Anything, not just low-income, illegals, minorities.....

(cough)Refugees(cough); transgenders; LGBT; etc.

Anything could be deemed ‘unfair’. And you (your community) don’t meet the quota.

“Social Engineering” backed with gubmint jackboots.


30 posted on 07/08/2015 5:12:28 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: ThomasMore

All aboard for : ALBANY NY, SYRACUSE, ROCHESTER, BUFFALO, CLEVELAND, DETROIT, GARY, CHICAGO, EAST SAINT LOUIS, SAINT LOUIS, NEW ORLEANS also CAMDEN NJ, PHILADEPHIA, BALTIMORE WASHINGTON, ATLANTA, ........... VARIOUS HELLS AND VICINITY.


31 posted on 07/08/2015 5:13:04 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: ThomasMore

Republicans with a spine (I know, I know . . .) in control of Congress should in response pass a law that any regulations and policies stemming from this initiative be applied first (and only) to those communities in Maryland and Virginia within a 50 mile radius of the Capital, for a 10 year test period of that approach. Let all the bureaucrats and toadies sucking on the federal teat show us how well that would work.

Obama would never sign such a bill, of course, but then one could, if one actually had some gumption, use that veto as a way of showing how phony these jerkweeds really are.


32 posted on 07/08/2015 5:13:30 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Norm Lenhart

But you have to remember that you go where the jobs are.


33 posted on 07/08/2015 5:13:49 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: ThomasMore
Gentrification is already helping to integrate young white hipsters into the ghettos...

The homeboys aren't liking it one bit...

It's diluting their "culture" LOL

Somehow I think this more about forcing minorities into white enclaves by force, rather then whites into black communities...

34 posted on 07/08/2015 5:14:00 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Cold Heat

“Ya gotta love these Obama libs”

Chicago corruption “par excellence”


35 posted on 07/08/2015 5:14:16 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

Not enough Whites being raped, robbed and murdered. Move people around; mix street savages with normal people, and so everyone is raped, robbed and murdered equally.


36 posted on 07/08/2015 5:14:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: ThomasMore
Sure.

If they start in Martha's Vineyard, Silicon Valley and Hollywood, I might believe them a little.

37 posted on 07/08/2015 5:15:50 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: lowbridge

the records were scrutinized and no patterns of segregation not self imposed were found

self segregation of Amish subculture groups was found to be by choice


38 posted on 07/08/2015 5:17:00 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: ThomasMore

Awesome


39 posted on 07/08/2015 5:17:25 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

They do not have to have jobs. The Government will give them everything the want, money to spend, a fully furnished house or apartment to live, food to eat, water and electricity paid for. Not only that, the Government will make sure that they have access to all the drugs and sex they desire. And the best part of it all is you and I will be paying for it


40 posted on 07/08/2015 5:17:50 AM PDT by sport
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