Posted on 06/25/2015 9:44:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Supreme Court saved a law Thursday aimed at preventing housing discrimination, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a scathing dissent calling out his liberal colleagues for their "audacity."
In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court's majority found that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) prevents housing practices that unfairly impact minorities even if those practices are not intentionally discriminatory. Many cases brought under the FHA involve so-called disparate-impact claims, so a ruling against fair-housing advocates would have seriously hobbled the law.
Thomas — the court's only African-American justice — wrote a separate dissent questioning the notion that the government should have a role in "racially balancing" America's neighborhoods. Thomas famously opposes affirmative action in college admissions, so it makes sense that he opposes efforts efforts at desegregation.
"This court has repeatedly reaffirmed that 'racial balancing' by state actors is 'patently unconstitutional,' even when it supposedly springs from good intentions," Thomas wrote.
Thomas, one of the court's conservative justices, also called out the liberal justices for assuming that "in the absence of discrimination, an institution's racial makeup would mirror that of society."
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Since forced school integration worked out so swimmingly for them.
This ruling is potentially VERY harmful to the US.
It was nothing more than social engineering that pissed off the blacks who didn't want to be bussed to the white schools and the whites who didn't want to be bussed to the black schools.......
One wonders if the feds could claim a racially disparate impact when you try to sell your house at market pricing (which might exclude poorer buyers).
Really, since Thomas is married to a white woman, can it really be said that he favors segregation?
It is the left that is starting to support segregation because “seeing a white person is triggering”
Obama supported segregation and minority-rule for Hawaii
Must not attack the “good intensions” of liberals!
the law was not aimed at discrimination
the law was aimed at policies that were not discriminatory in any way shape or form
the law states that landlords must MUST favor minorities and can not be neutral.
We always lose don’t we! The corporations and the business establishment is the only exceptions. This is getting sickening.
Well, I guess this means the NBA is going to have to recruit some more white boys to “balance things out” even if it is “unintentionally” lopsided.
Once again, Thomas is the voice of reason.
The hypocrisy of the left is what galls me most. Blacks should be allowed to have black-only schools, clubs, neighborhoods, TV networks, congressional caucuses, etc. But let whites try it and it suddenly becomes racist.
Mathematically, if you require previously white neighborhoods to match the racial makeup of the country, then there could be no black neighborhoods because all those blacks would be needed to balance the previously white neighborhoods. How would blacks feel about being parceled out so that only 1 in 10 people in their neighborhoods were also black? (I don’t know, but if it were me, the issue would not be the racial makeup of my neighborhood so much as the government pushing me around.)
The corporations and business establishment is not “we” any more
Hopefully this will open the doors for more low income housing in places like the Hamptons and Cape Cod where the population is almost entirely white, rich, and liberal.
Logically, no. But that's not going to be any impediment to the liberal smear campaign that will ensue.
All too true.
They intend to perform cultural rape on the suburbs.
“The corporations and business establishment is not “we” any more.”
agreed, It was a mistake t olower their taxes now they don’t need us any more.
No we are all feeling Black on the day we fill out the Paperwork and Native on the day we sign it and female on the day we get the keys
+1
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