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Clarence Thomas attacked his colleagues for saving a law aimed at desegregating America
Business Insider ^ | 06/25/2015 | Erin Fuchs

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cabrinigreen; clarencethomas; desegragation; fairhousingact; housing; scotus; supremecourt
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To: SeekAndFind

Are they going to force hispanics to move into China Town?
Will they force blacks to move into hispanic dominated areas?


21 posted on 06/25/2015 11:42:40 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

More importantly are they going to screw up the Food Court? I don’t want Mexican kids yelling at me to try samples when that is CLEARLY a job for Asian ladies.


22 posted on 06/25/2015 11:44:06 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: MrB

And lots and lots of actual rape rape too!


23 posted on 06/25/2015 11:46:30 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Cabrini-Green ping/Partisan Media Shills ping.

24 posted on 06/25/2015 12:16:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: generally

Here’s what I see, I’ve lived in a NE city that was white going back 200 yrs and turned black/Hispanic and the white folks fled for security reasons. But then “Section 8” took over and destroyed the neighborhoods that were solid. Now they want to enforce that every neighborhood has poverty housing.
I’m so glad I moved to rural East Texas. But yo, please move to Colorado, Arizona or NM because traffic here is getting bad. Please stay where you are and change there


25 posted on 06/25/2015 12:29:11 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Sgt_Schultze
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).

It's coming. Count on it.

26 posted on 06/25/2015 1:40:48 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We herd blacks into ghettos by offering them free/subsidized housing and wonder why they live there. I lived in an apartment unit that was all black except for me. They had all received rent help from the government. Almost all of the units around us housed black people. On the other side of the pool a few blocks away, those units were all white/Asian.


27 posted on 06/25/2015 2:01:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy

My experience has been that many blacks self-segregate. I don’t see where they have been herded into ghettos. They have options.


29 posted on 06/25/2015 2:13:57 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Kevin S Briefcase

There aren’t any rich white conservative areas - those areas are pretty diverse because we live in areas where jobs and work opportunities are plentiful.


31 posted on 06/25/2015 2:30:32 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Kevin S Briefcase

Where?


33 posted on 06/25/2015 9:11:39 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Kevin S Briefcase

Well that is a little unfair since that entire State of Minnesota is white! 88% white...


35 posted on 06/27/2015 5:19:35 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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