"Your house is big enough for 13 families, comrade!"
Posted on 06/10/2015 4:46:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Despite the fact that in 2014, Money magazine named McKinney, Texas, a small suburb located just outside of Dallas, "the best place to live in America," for the past few days the town has been inundated with media attention in response to circulated images of a white police officer cursing, pointing his weapon at and physically assaulting black teenagers as young as 14 in an attempt to break up a pool party at a subdivision. A teenager at the party filmed and uploaded video of the incident to YouTube on Saturday and it quickly went viral.
The police were reportedly called to the scene following what was at first a verbal, but quickly escalated to a physical, altercation between two white female community members and two teenage partygoers (one of whom was white and the other black) after the adults hurled racial slurs at both young people, and then slapped one, while yelling that they should leave the area and "go back to your Section 8 housing."
The hate-fueled reference to the federally funded Section 8 housing program, which provides housing subsidies for low-income participants, is significant because it, as well as McKinney and surrounding areas, are at the heart of a soon-to-be decided Supreme Court case that has the potential to either reaffirm our commitment to, or fully gut, fair housing laws designed to promote racial and economic integration.
The events in McKinney make a stronger argument than could almost any lawyer for why the court should affirm the importance of racially and economically integrated residential areas.
The Supreme Court case was brought against the Texas State Housing Authority by a nonprofit organization that works to promote integrated communities. The nonprofit, Inclusive Communities, showed that the Texas Housing Authority assigned nearly all of the affordable housing tax credits to Dallas's black neighborhoods and almost none of it to white neighborhoods where residents, like those in McKinney, consistently organized to make clear that they did want to have many, if any, Section 8 families among them. The federal judge hearing the initial case ruled that there was no intentional discrimination on the part of Texas Housing Authority officials, but his opinion still held that the outcome unacceptably increased housing segregation and that the housing agency could have taken steps to ensure that affordable housing units were allotted more equally.
In response, the Texas Housing Authority appealed the ruling, but lost again. That would have been the end of the case if the Supreme Court had not asked to have it argued before them in January. An array of industry and conservative groups are backing Texas in its effort to roll back Fair Housing Act enforcement. Civil-rights organizations, along with 17 states and more than 20 large cities and counties, are siding with Inclusive Communities.
This case is important because it is well understood that housing segregation is the foundation of much of the racial inequality in the United States. Indeed, though the formal barriers to residential integration were long ago lifted, many African-Americans still face limited housing choices and live in poor neighborhoods that lack the infrastructure and environmental safety of close-by affluent neighborhoods that are often overwhelmingly white. Residential segregation also makes equal access to quality education, employment, homeownership and wealth accumulation far more difficult.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it denies the potential for white community members in neighborhoods such as McKinney to learn that they have nothing to fear from American citizens who may not share either their race or economic backgrounds. Let's hope our highest court thinks this is important, as well.
Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
"San Francisco gives parents a say in where their children go to school — and that is leading to less diversity....
“If the school reflects the community, it’s not necessarily a problem,” he said. “It’s absolutely about every student being successful at every school.”
Sanchez and Van Court are not alone. Even the African American community, the force behind the historical desegregation efforts, has fallen silent.
“We really don’t have any public demand for this,” State Board of Education President Mike Kirst said about desegregation. “The courts, of course, have largely retreated in this area. And I feel no bottom-up demand for this.”
But just because everybody’s OK with the status quo doesn’t mean it’s right, said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.....
Deep thinker that professor of a laundry list of nothingburger “studies.”
congrats to the white video clown in mckinney whose parents just lost 30% in home value.
“The nonprofit, Inclusive Communities, showed that the Texas Housing Authority assigned nearly all of the affordable housing tax credits to Dallas’s black neighborhoods and almost none of it to white neighborhoods”
not surprising at all. In fact this type of things extends to jusy about every type of government benefit. I know so many white people that have applied for benefits and been denied or given a very low benefit amount depite the fact that there situation is no different than their “minority” (majority) counterparts. I wondered why I kept hearing this until I had to take someone to apply for EBT benefits and looked at the staff; all were minorities; everyone of them.
Prof. Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar, she works on the racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment; racial inequality in education; race, migration and urbanization and Black women’s studies.
Selected Authored Publications:
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women, London and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. (Winner, Choice award for Outstanding Academic Book, 1997 and selected by the Public Library Association as an Outstanding University Press Book, 1997).
Ladies’ Pages: African American Women’s Magazines and the Culture That Made Them, London and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
White Money/Black Power: The History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education, Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
Associate Editor: Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, 1920-1975, San Francisco: Q.E.D. Press, 1992 (Winner, 1993 American Book Award).
Editor: Black Women’s Studies: A Reader, New York: ProQuest Publishing and the Schomburg Center for Research in African American Culture, 2005.
Recent Courses Taught:
ASRC 3550 – Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty
http://www.asrc.cornell.edu/people/rooks.cfm
“The nonprofit, Inclusive Communities, showed that the Texas Housing Authority assigned nearly all of the affordable housing tax credits to Dallas’s black neighborhoods and almost none of it to white neighborhoods”
not surprising at all. In fact this type of things extends to just about every type of government benefit. I know so many white people that have applied for benefits and been denied or given a very low benefit amount depite the fact that their situation is no different than their “minority” (majority) counterparts. I wondered why I kept hearing this until I had to take someone to apply for EBT benefits and looked at the staff; all were minorities; everyone of them.
>>Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.<<
They should have led with that — I would have known the article is socialist claptrap.
I am trying to figure out what they expect to get out of this case. Are they going to chain whites and blacks together like Tony Curtis and Sidney Portier in “the Defiant Ones?”
These people are dangerous.
this is analogous to distributing garbage around all neighborhoods instead of a central collection point
So, the fence jumpin’ party wreckers playing sicko rap music want to ruin white culture. It wasn’t the pool peeps hopping the fence to rush the rap crap culture. Say no to diversity crap.
The property prices in Baltimore and Ferguson are crashing - for some reason - but if this article is any guide there's no danger of leftwingers connecting cause and effect anytime soon.
This is what passes as “higher education” - she teaches at Cornell - earlier at Columbia and Princeton.
"Your house is big enough for 13 families, comrade!"
“African-Americans still face limited housing choices and live in poor neighborhoods that lack the infrastructure and environmental safety of close-by affluent neighborhoods that are often overwhelmingly white”
Guess what, if you commit a lot of crimes, it’ll become less safe no matter where you go.
I suspect this “best place to live in America” will soon see a massive demographic shift. People who moved there in the hope that their children would experience a genuinely diverse community will be leaving.
People like that are a hallmark of a society that is too successful, too rich, and too idle. She produces NOTHING of value with her completely useless degrees. Worse, somehow we grant her type a platform from which to spew hate, sow discord and enable her to destroy everything good about the USA.
Professor Rooks
“...a soon-to-be decided Supreme Court case that has the potential to either reaffirm our commitment to, or fully gut, fair housing laws designed to promote racial and economic integration. “
I got this far and stopped reading.
Yes. That’s the idea.
“She produces NOTHING of value with her completely useless degrees. Worse, somehow we grant her type a platform from which to spew hate, sow discord and enable her to destroy everything good about the USA.”
And I will be that we paid for it, too.
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