Here da bitch be:
 Laura Cumbo |
Posted on 03/30/2015 4:53:38 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Apparently upset that “blocs” of Asians are taking over blocks of public housing in her district, a New York City councilwoman last week suggested “culture” be included when assigning people to public housing.
“There could be some benefit to housing people by culture,” Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo told the New York Post. “I think it needs to be discussed.”
lauriecumbo0330 Photo: New York Post
If Cumbo weren’t a black woman Democrat from New York City in 2015 – if she were, say, a white male Democrat from Alabama in 1965 – everyone would know exactly what she was talking about when she says “culture.”
She means language, ethnic origin and skin color. She means “race,” in a word. And by speaking it out loud she’s giving away again how liberal fixation with skin color affects everything they do.
Cumbo raised the issue Thursday during a city council meeting about the city’s Housing Authority, according to the New York Daily News.
She said two public housing projects in her district “have welcomed a sizable increase from the Asian population within a small window of time.”
It doesn’t sound like they were very welcome though.
“We want to understand, what the tenants want to understand, is how is it … that people from all ethnicities could be moving into the district, but that’s not actually the case,” she said. “They are having challenges in terms of understanding how one particular ethnic group, that speaks the same language across the board … has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers.”
In other words, Cumbo’s predominantly black constituents saw all those Asians moving in and thought, “there goes the neighborhood.”
Naturally, Cumbo’s been taking heat from New York’s Asian politicians, who are shocked – shocked! – that a Democrat could talk that way.
“This is New York City, after all, and it is our responsibility as council members to do everything in our power to bring our constituents together,” Councilwoman Margaret Chin said, according to the New York Observer.
But really, Cumbo was just taking liberal Democrat thinking a logical step forward. The progressive obsession with skin color — whether it’s separate dorms for blacks on college campuses, the “black lives matter” mob, the “black brunch” rabble, or the Congressional Black Caucus — has spent decades rotting at the core of liberal politics – and the beliefs of liberal Democrats.
It’s how we got Barack Obama in the White House.
The Cumbo story had the Twitter world buzzing.
Doesn't matter.
Democrats are Democrats.
And all Democrats are racist - one way or another.
Sexist too.
Perhaps there was something to Plessy vs Ferguson after all....?
You’re correct. They’re what’s left at the bottom of the barrel once honest and responsible blacks have accepted integration and education and moved out and up.
I thought diversity was supposed to be our strength, or something like that.
150 years ago Union generals wanted to know what Lincoln intended to do about the freed slaves that had left the plantations and were following their armies; they couldn’t feed them and fight the war simultaneously.
A century and a half later we’re still awaiting an answer.
You’re right; it is certainly happening here in NJ. The county north of me just added a new language to their ballots: Korean. Now they have English, Spanish, and Korean; I expect in central NJ they’ll be adding Hindi. Hispanics are trafficked here to replace blue-collar Americans, while Asians are trafficked here to replace white-collar Americans. Haley & Jindal are just the beginning...
They are losing college seats and affirmative action jobs to Hispanics; they are also losing political power. They are wards of the state (like American Indians), and increasingly disappearing from the public sphere; Obama’s election, while hailed by many blacks, was engineered to implement a godless white liberal agenda. The continued downward spiral of blacks during his reign is a testament to that.
Here da bitch be:
Laura Cumbo |
Ironic - howls for “diversity” when it comes to putting an inordinate number of Blacks in an environment, then calling for segregation of other races to keep the “purity” of Blackness intact.....
Correction: 'a godless white liberal ELITE agenda'...
I know plenty of non-elite godless whites who want the same.
Blacks just cannot believe that hispanics and gays have passed them on the Victim totem pole, now they (and the left) will be trying to keep down those uppity orientals.
you would be right, that is exactly what she looks like
remember the big push by the left in Kalipornia to limit the number if asians in state colleges.
That’s what you get when the government takes over things that are none of their business, like housing,. They start telling people where they can and can’t live. Sound familiar? They’ve done it with the tax code and with health care, to name just two. They use the tax exempt status of churches to keep churches out of politics.
And these are the same DemocRATS who dare to call me RACIST!
NEVER ALLOW THEM TO SAY THIS TO US AGAIN.
Blacks hate Koteans who open stores in their neighborhood. They don’t say who the Asians are. Could be any group.
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