Laurie Cumbo.
Posted on 03/30/2015 4:47:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
New York City’s 334 public housing developments’ bland, dilapidated-before-they-were-even-built housing projects have blighted the urban landscape for decades.
Now, though, a Big Apple councilwoman has added further insult by bizarrely endorsing the segregation of residents living in two housing projects in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood by ethnic groups.
The Daily Caller is not making this up.
The councilwoman is Democrat Laurie Cumbo, the New York Post reports.
Cumbo, who is black, is concerned that “blocs” of Asians have been moving into the Fort Greene housing projects.
“How is it that one specific ethnic group has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers?” she asked, according to the Post.
“There could be some benefit to housing people by culture,” Cumbo later told the Post when asked to clarify her comments. “I think it needs to be discussed.”
The councilwoman’s bizarrely racial comments were met with quick pushback locally. “She certainly could’ve chosen her words a bit more carefully,” Chinese-American councilwoman Margaret Chin told the newspaper.
Chin noted that “many” Asian-American families “have applied to live in public housing.”
Cumbo later issued an apology, defending her remarks by saying that she merely wanted to know if the New York City Housing Authority “uses a cultural preference priority component” to select new tenants.
Housing authority spokeswoman Shola Olatoye noted that there is no such component.
Cumbo represents New York City’s 35th district, which includes Fort Greene, Prospect Heights and a couple other Brooklyn neighborhoods.
She is a Brooklyn native. Her undergraduate alma mater is Spelman College, an all-female, historically black school in Atlanta. She also has a Master’s degree in visual arts administration from New York University.
The housing projects in Fort Greene include the Walt Whitman houses, which were once the stomping ground of Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a rapper and a founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, notes Complex.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard died in 2004 of a drug overdose involving cocaine and the prescription pain drug tramadol.
It was only a matter of time until racial segregation was a good thing to leftists
LOL!
“Ol’ Dirty Bastard died in 2004 of a drug overdose involving cocaine and the prescription pain drug tramadol.”
HAHAHAHA!!!
She sounds like she wants a return to the bad old days of...”segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”-George Wallace
It always was. They just had to hide it for a few decades.
What is a Masters Degree in Visual Arts Administration? Did I pay for it?
Nah, she wants to continue to b*tch about the “bad old days” while making new bad old days on her terms.
Asian section to well keep up?
Insanity!
So. Would you prefer to live with Asians, or a neighborhood populated by generations of chronic social program dependents?
And which group would you prefer to live in your taxpayer subsidized housing?
Even without the common stereotypes, there is a marked difference of industriousness and criminality between the two ethnic groups. And one group is not more “entitled” to public housing than the other.
Who is the real racist here?
Laurie Cumbo.
I don't know, Cupcake. As the 99 percent black population that currently lives in welfare housing.
I would rent someone's couch or garage in a decent area of town before I'd endure an apartment in the ghetto.
As = Ask
if you look at the democratic party historically in the south they were the ones that enacted all the Jim crow laws. not the republican party. there is a deep will of bigotry within the party that its members keep hidden from each other because if they were to acknowledge it they would loose a lot of there supporters. so they don’t talk about it except for when one of there own goes off the reservation and makes a stamen like the council woman did.
Racist?
Giveusdats
The councilwoman has an interest in gerrymandering her own district with a demographic that will keep her in power.
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