Posted on 07/19/2015 4:21:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We recently discussed a story that wasn’t particularly popular here (to be charitable) which dealt with a new White House plan to implement enforced neighborhood diversity in American towns and cities through the power and influence of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The rest of the nation wasn’t exactly pleased with the idea either, but it did raise some interesting questions. One of the biggest among those was the puzzle of exactly how the federal government plans to figure out precisely how many people in each racial pigeonhole are living where and how they are interacting. Is that sort of data even available to be used in making such determinations, assuming you wanted to do it?
The short answer seems to be “no.” The longer – and apparently more accurate – answer is, “not yet.” But never fear, citizens! As Paul Sperry reports for the New York Post, the required data collection is on the way and it’s going to be mind blowing.
A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”
Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.
This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.
I assumed at first that they would just be tapping into the census data, but that’s severely limited for this sort of preferential racial tracking. People tend to move around, so the big, decennial numbers tend to go stale after a while. Also, for the majority of respondents, they don’t tell you much more than a zip code to match up with the racial data – far less than you’d need for some of Obama’s ambitious plans. Sperry’s report breaks down some of the digital treasure troves which are being mined to fill in all of those gaps and it’s sounding more and more like The Central Scrutinizer from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa.
First there’s the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database which was announced in our previous coverage linked above. It breaks down every neighborhood by four racial groups and identifies the ones which are in need of correction. (If the ZIP code in question has less than 50% “non-white population” is fails to escape the category of being “segregated.”) But wait… there’s more! The Federal Housing Finance Agency will be tapped to provide individual credit scores (along with “all credit lines” of all types) and employment history. Loan approvals will be tested against racial data along with those other fiscal criteria to root out racism in that sector even if none is being alleged.
But don’t stop there. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (brainchild of Liz Warren) will be providing everyone’s credit card accounts sorted by race. (Side note: I don’t recall telling them my race when I got my last credit card. Odd.) Oh, and the banks will all need to tell Big Brother the race of everyone they hire as well as everyone who applies for a job. That should help them keep an eye on Wall Street, eh? Oh, and wait until you see what the Education Department is up to.
Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.
Those that don’t comply will be punished. Several already have been forced to revise their discipline policies, which has led to violent disruptions in classrooms.
This is some groundbreaking stuff, folks. Has there ever been such an assemblage of personal, private data by the federal government? To what purpose will all of this be put? And apparently it can all be done by the stroke of a pen in the White House without any congressional action or involvement. I suppose the final question here is… is there any way to stop it?
We left Cali five years ago for Wyoming and we’ve never missed it because even when it’s -30 here it’s still warms my heart more than Cali ever could!
Is there any way to stop it? Sure. We could elect Republicans to Congress. They are bound to take a strong stand for liberty and freedom.
You’re kidding, right? He has access to all university and K-12 registration systems, all DMVs, Google, NSA, social media sites, Google, health care databases and Obamacare databases, traffic and security cameras all over the country, all photo sites and excelled facial recognition software. Why do you think fedzilla wants the extended census form filled out by so many people? Do you think the hack of Rite Aid, CVS, Costco and Wal-Mart Canada photo sites was an ordinary hack? Do you think he was going to build this database using legal means and ask you to voluntarily disclose the info?
Sorry, Wild...you need to get into nefarious think-mode.
Do you ever get photographed by a security camera? Do you visit a bank? Do you file income tax returns? Do you chat on FR?
He started out as a full throated marxist/communist and never stopped at mere leftist. Read what he wrote about his professors at Occidental or his visit in Portola Valley (read “Meeting Young Obama, Feb 24, 2011 by John Drew on American Thinker) or his tutelage by communist Frank Davis Marshall when he was a sprout.
I don't doubt he probably believes a good deal of the class warfare/race nonsense of the leftist ideologues he knew and studied under. But like most people of his type, he likes power and the perks of filthy lucre.
Unlike Bill Clinton, Obama is too ignorant to understand that he can only go so far before the system is wrecked. But I still think he's evolved more into a parasite than the pure leftist he was in his earlier incarnation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315415/posts?page=1#1
Cruz knows more than I. See above link.
Thus he is going after those organizations and databases.
Question 1: There were cameras all around the post office building in new orleans. Around here, it’s the cameras hanging with the stoplights.
Question 2: no.
Question 3: by paper and ink only.
Question 4: If you look me up, you will find i am connected to a past of writing newspaper articles for over six years, so i can’t hide too much. I am also an ordained minister through the ULC, and my name is in the book at the courthouse, and NO i don’t do weddings!!
because congresses neighborhoods will be exempt, naturally.
Dear megan,
From my departure of kali in the 80’s to Long Island, NY in november; from NY to oregon, where it can get -20, and THEN the wind; to the swamps of Louisiana, today. Were it not for, ahem, somebody to make this place more palatable - more like the poor Connecticut Yankee in King Athur’s Court - I would have left.
Yes, Hurricane Katrina was bad. Yes, i was there, during and after. The middle of the state is only 85 feet above sea level, but the land is at the fringe of the Yellowstone fallout, and the fringe of the New Madrid area of influence. The Bayou Corne is still eating up the land and expanding, and i live a mile and a half from a swamp.
Right now, at 20:22, it is down to 88 degrees F, with a heat index of 97 degrees F.
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