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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Are they going to force hispanics to move into China Town?
Will they force blacks to move into hispanic dominated areas?
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.
And lots and lots of actual rape rape too!
Cabrini-Green ping/Partisan Media Shills ping.
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
It's coming. Count on it.
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.
My experience has been that many blacks self-segregate. I don’t see where they have been herded into ghettos. They have options.
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.
Where?
Well that is a little unfair since that entire State of Minnesota is white! 88% white...
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