Posted on 06/12/2015 5:47:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
Fox News’s Megyn Kelly began Thursday’s edition of The Kelly File by ripping into President Barack Obama and plans for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to regulate and enforce the diversity of neighborhoods (and particularly wealthy ones).
A few hours after the major broadcast networks ignored this story on their evening newscasts, Kelly made clear her disdain with the President and referred to him as “[t]he man who changed your health care system forever” that’s “now pushing to change your neighborhood” and especially “if Uncle Sam feels it is not inclusive enough.”
Citing the administration’s line that they’re simply creating “a plan to diversify neighborhoods and promote fair housing choice,” Kelly threw in with opponents who “say this is the most radical, politically explosive change President Obama has attempted in his six-plus years in office, calling it social engineering of the worst kind.”
In her introduction, Kelly further explained the plan by the federal government to use billions of dollars in grants to hold over the heads of local governments:
The feds now want to take billions in housing grant money and condition it on communities proving that they are sufficiently inclusive and diverse. They want to look around the area you live and decide if your town is diverse enough. If not, the feds will order low-income housing or else, much of your federal funding for your town will dry up. Experts say this is more than an attempt to change the way America's neighborhoods look. It may also be an attempt to change the way they vote.
Speaking with Thiessen, Kelly mentioned that “[t]his is being described as something that President Obama has had in the works for years, but has only now found the guts to actually put out there” as his presidency is set to end in almost a year and a half. Clearly not convinced, Kelly mocked the Obama administration’s plans:
They don't want, quote, “unequal neighborhoods.” Unequal neighborhoods. It – they think too many cities are too white, too privileged with too big McMansions, too big McMansions and they – they want to diverse the communities whether the communities want it or not.
Likening it to a housing version of affirmative action, Kelly and Thiessen predicted that HUD Secretary and possible 2016 Democratic vice presidential candidate Julian Castro and Hillary Clinton will argue that Republicans and those against these rules “are against communities of color” and “those folks who pursued white flight want it to stay that way and don't want people of color moving in next door to them and that’s racist and discriminatory.”
When Kelly spoke with Fowler (who argued for the changes), Kelly spoke of her own upbringing to drive home her argument against the forced diversity of neighborhoods:
I mean, I didn't grow up in a fancy neighborhood. I wanted to be in one, but we couldn't afford it and you know, then getting to an adult, I made more money and now I live in a nice neighborhood. It’s alright. It's a nice home. The neighborhood – anyway. The point is, that's the way it was usually done. It's not like, you must diversify because Uncle Sam feels it's too white or it's too rich.
This would cost the Dems dearly.
Nothing will cure “white guilt” faster than importing inner city criminals into the ‘burbs.
The GOP like everyone else will suck it up!!
[[although she seems like a real sweetheart.]]
mmmm yeah, real sweatheart with rattlesnake fangs
[[I have worked hard and sacrificed much to achieve where I am]]
You didn’t earn that... according to the potus
Not his concern, and not a Federal matter. Furthermore, any action he takes should require Congressional approval.
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Obama is an undocumented, unwanted wild turd floating around in the seas of our lives.
It will do one other thing, even more insidious: It will destroy property values.
That is the idea. Ferguson, Baltimore, etc. are the putsch from the left and "diversity of neighborhoods" are the putsch from the right. Communist playbook.
“. All this will do is inflame racial tensions even more than it already is under Obola.”
That’s the plan. Incite race wars, create civil unrest, impose martial law, suspend Constitutional rights, become dictator.
“If you like your neighbor...you can keep your neighbor.”
ROFLOL!
His real revolutionary goals wil, if not stymied, attempt to mimic the “Vendee Revenge”, a massively under reported genocidal byproduct of the French revolution.
HUD drops investigation of residents who protested against low-income housing
September 20, 1994
HUD drops investigation of residents who protested against
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In late August, federal housing officials dropped an investigation of three Berkeley, Calif., residents who protested the renovation of a hotel for low- income housing, and in early September announced guidelines designed to prevent probes of activities protected by the First Amendment.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development guidelines were written in response to pressure from American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Stephen Shapiro and members of the press who contended that people who peacefully protested housing projects in their neighborhoods should not be prosecuted for exercising their First Amendment rights.
At an early September news conference, HUD’s Roberta Achtenberg, assistant secretary for fair housing and equal employment, told reporters that HUD will continue to investigate complaints of conduct or speech that is “coercive, threatening, intimidating, or harassing,” but not complaints about “neighbors involved in a peaceful protest,” according to Associated Press reports.
Since the Berkeley case, HUD has identified 34 complaints involving free-speech issues, Achtenberg told AP at the press conference. She said 11 have been dismissed under the new guidelines and the rest will be reviewed.
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