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To: syriacus
An article that may interest you:

The Diversity Recession, or How Affirmative Action Helped Cause the Housing Crisis

Excerpt:

Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for decades. Yet, one factor has so far been largely overlooked: the bipartisan social engineering crusade to drive up the rate of homeownership by handing out more mortgages to minorities.

More than a negligible amount of the blame for the mortgage meltdown can be traced back to multiculturalism: government-mandated affirmative-action lending, demographic change, illegal immigration, and the mind-numbing effects of political correctness.

The chickens have finally come home to roost.

About half of all mortgages for blacks and Hispanics are subprime, versus roughly one-sixth for whites. Not surprisingly, the biggest home price collapses have occurred in heavily Hispanic cities such as Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. ...

14 posted on 09/18/2008 7:40:53 AM PDT by freespirited (Obama's idea of change: from D.C. politics as usual to Chicago politics as usual.)
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To: freespirited
social engineering crusade

Yep!!

Thanks for providing the link. I'm heading there now.

15 posted on 09/18/2008 7:42:43 AM PDT by syriacus (Calling humans "pigs" is second-nature for anti-war radicals, Black Panthers + radical Islamists.)
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To: freespirited
Terrific essay. It covers a lot of aspects of this crisis.. Thanks again for the link.
16 posted on 09/18/2008 8:00:11 AM PDT by syriacus (Calling humans "pigs" is second-nature for anti-war radicals, Black Panthers + radical Islamists.)
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