Residential Segregation the Final Frontier

August 23 1968 martian Luther king had a dream " That his children would be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin." The dream came true. Millions of white people across the country judged their neighbors by the content of their character and voted with their feet catching the next plane out on White Flight to the suburbs.

Quote from the NYT "This week a federal court ruled that the county of Westchester NY will be compelled to create hundreds of houses and apartments for moderate-income people in overwhelmingly white communities and aggressively market them to nonwhites in Westchester and New York City."

The use of the words Compel and Create are interesting. Does the court think that someone is going to wave a magic wand and say the magic words ' Federal Money " and apartment houses are just going to appear in the middle of affluent communities. These apartments also have to be " Permanently Affordable."what this means is the developers and builders are going to build a ghetto using Federal Money.

This all started because Westchester county applied for a Federal Block Grant for community development. That opened the door to be sued by the Anti-Discrimination Center, which filed the lawsuit. With the blessing of the Justice Dept and the Federal Housing Administration. What started all this litigation in the first place?

Perhaps it was this statement “This is consistent with the president’s desire to see a fully integrated society,” said Ron Sims, the deputy secretary of housing and urban development, which helped broker the settlement along with the Justice Department. “Until now, we tended to lay dormant. This is historic, because we are going to hold people’s feet to the fire.”

This begs the question " Which peoples feet, to what fire" Are we to assume that the citizens of Westchester county have been with malice and forethought keeping African-Americans and Hispanics out of their county? It has been my experience that people generally live where they can afford to live whether they like it or not.

Here is another zesty quote from the NYT "A federal monitor, James E. Johnson, has been appointed to ensure that the county abides by the settlement. Given that 120,000 acres in the county meet the criteria, the monitor “should have no difficulty making sure that Westchester ends its policy of allowing affordable housing to be off-limits in the most highly white neighborhoods in the county,” Mr. Gurian said."

A Federal Monitor? This is like some sci-fi novel about a forced social utopia except it happening for real right here in NYS. It is plain to see the agenda President Barack Obama has for America. It would have been nice if he had shared this agenda with the voters during the primaries . If this is how Barack Obama plans to heal the Racial Divide in this country, It may just make the situation much worse.

Fifty years of Racial Integration failures has proved that the government can not force people to like each other. No matter how much of the milk of human kindness is spilled people live where they choose to, they associate with the people they like and they send their children to the schools they feel are best. Freedom of choice is what the founding fathers believed in and it is what this country is based on. It is inherently wrong for American government to try and change those basic rights.