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.
Nothing to fear if they stay in their locked and bolted homes, armed and ready to defend themselves. Let's not forget, the so called American citizens of which she speaks are not even aware of what being a good citizen entails. Decent young black teenagers would never behave the way this invading horde of black trash behaved. The neighbors of this community have a very different story than the media reported.
So now we have it. Whites must apologize for not allowing these punks to destroy their lives? Take away all white presence in this country and what you are left with is another lawless, war torn, pathetic African country where people are butchered and Idi Amin is dictator once more.
It’s not about racism, feminism, climate change, healthcare, fair housing, education - any of these grievance/alarmist groups/issues - it’s ALL about the socialism.
Bravo, my friend. Well said.
“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.”
Well said... Does not solve anything. Just throws S*** Grenades and laughs at those who have to deal with the results, like the police.
Hey, the writing is on the wall. The indications are clear. All white persons desiring to survive the imminent holocaust must barricade themselves in their homes with guns loaded, ready to defend their right to exist in this country or else they will soon be extinct as a species. May God help us.
bfl
>>“African-Americans still face limited housing choices and live in poor neighborhoods<<
Those poor, poor people. Just innocent victims of a mystical oppressive force that renders them unable to do anything to improve their lot in life. So, so sad...
why the court should affirm the importance of racially and economically integrated residential areas
Oh, the author of this piece is in favor of the government forcing people in good neighborhoods to allow criminals free run therein.
Nice that they’re so open about it.
Ah, I see...
basically:
“we don’t like the fact that your ‘white’ culture is so prosperous and successful, it makes us look bad by comparison, so we are going to do everything we can, including using the government, to destroy your culture and make it more like ours.”
“...fair housing laws designed to promote racial and economic integration...”
Oh, that’s rich. Go to Memphis and see how it’s working.
Why would anyone who has struggled to get out of poverty and move to a safe neighborhood want to have criminals “integrated” in with them?
And she appears to have made a pretty good living as a professional “victim”. They seem to be proliferating these days.
With a resume like hers, she wouldn’t be a likely prospect for employment in the real world.
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.
Looks like Obola's sons, like St. Trayvon of the Skittles (SBUH) and the screeching, cop threatening mob in McKinney are doing a great deal to show us all why we damn well need to fear such "people."
That evil, vicious, pigged out, ignorant fat creep destroyed the career of a fine officer who was doing his level best to protect the community from a destructive, howling mob.
Cornell. Probably lives in Cayuga Heights.
“”laws designed to promote racial and economic integration.””
We need to scream LOUD and OFTEN whenever a law is proposed using this reasoning! It’s the only way to stop them. Work to defeat every single one of them!
My sister-in-law worked at the McKinney courthouse for years. She has been to several parties at the PRIVATELY OWNED Craig Ranch pool.
It used to be a nice area partially rural but now has been gobbled up by the Metroplex.
She said she will call friends there and find out what is going on.
Biggest problem back then was between the latinos and blacks.
***federally funded Section 8 housing program, ***
I saw Section 8 housing destroy the stability of South Peoria in Tulsa OK, south of I-44 (Skelly Bypass). It was once a nice area, now you take your life in your hands to go there.
Sept 2014: Galveston Housing Authority declares firm commitment to Fair Housing as construction begins
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