U.S. judge is asked to order housing for poor in suburbs

Baltimore Sun ^ | March 21, 2006 | Eric Siegel

[The Toll]

Can someone please explain to me how discrimination made these neighborhoods undereducated, unsafe, and devoid of recreation, as the complaint states?

[goldstategop]

Right. Build government housing that reduces property values and creates a safe haven for criminals in the suburbs. That's going to very popular with voters. As popular as forced busing was in the 1970s in Boston and other cities around America.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[JZelle]

Maryland! That figures!

[Dad yer funny]

yup , yer correct , great post , however ,...

just a FRiendly FReeper addendum to the picture Shomer painted

... the sound of sirens , ... [NO? YES?]

[Little Ray]

Appeal up to the new, improved, Supreme Court, maybe they'll slap him down.

[gogeo]

An overly developed sense of grievance can only be made worse by an unreaslistic sense of entitlement.

[Joe Boucher]

I'm a victim, I'm a victim, GOT ANY MONEY MONEY MONEY?
How about a house?

[sgtbono2002]

You are correct Montgomery is intgrated with rich blacks, Why shouldnt it take its share of the poor? Why foust them off on someone else.

[jordan8]

Baltimore didn't become majority black because of "the effects of decades of discriminatory actions", it became majority black because of the policies of the elite whose effect, and it was an effect that was well known to them, was de facto ethnic cleansing of whites from these cities, cities built by their ancestors. A large part of that ethnic cleansing came about because of the way the government and media handled black crime in general, and black racial violence in particular: they ignored or excused it. Blacks aren't the victims here.

The "war against racism" is largely a class and political war waged by rich and upper middle class, mostly white liberals (and their rich conservative and Republican collaborators) against working class and lower middle class whites. A phony crusade where those who have all the power pretend to be in a life and death struggle against those who have no power. It's one that gives them a sense of moral superiority as well, just a little something to make them feel smugly superior as they go from their largely segregated jobs to their largely segregated homes on roads partly built to protect them from bumping into the muliticultural polloi they so love in abstract. Their victims have fled and now they're pursuing them, not only across distance, but up the economic ladder as well, as the tamed and battered working and lower middle classes can no longer be presented as a credible foil.

Having said all that, I say that if we must have these types of programs they should be borne by the rich as well as the middle class. There's no reason on Earth why the rich and upper middle class shouldn't accept less of a percentage of the public housing they are trying to foist off on the middle class. In fact, they should get nearly all of it for a while to make of for the imbalance of the past, until that imbalance is rectified. What better "neighborhoods with better opportunities . . . for education, employment, safety and recreation" are there than these rich neighborhoods? Maybe they could employ their new neighbors as housekeepers instead of importing them from Central America. If certain laws were really applied to everyone they would be far less likely to pass, but such is the imbalance of power in this country today that laws like hate crime statutes and the "Fairness Doctrine" can be passed or threatened because those pushing them know they'll never be applied to them or those they favor.

[blam]

............"Baltimore's African-American public housing residents have virtually no opportunity to live in white, suburban neighborhoods with better opportunities for themselves and their children for education, employment, safety and recreation,"

Why not. Struggle like I did to get a good education and then a good job and you can live down at the beach with me.

[blam]

"Of course when the market value drops in those neighborhoods, so will the tax revenues to the city."

Look at Detroit...one of the murder capitals in this country and they're having to lay-off policemen.