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?
I’m a native American. I would assume that most FReepers are native Americans, also. However, sometimes I feel like a Pacific Islander lesbian trapped in a man’s body Pacific with ADA disabilities.
How about you?
They will be busing in rich people to my neighbor hood. Guess they’ll be fixing up some of the abandoned houses that aint been burnt down.
Because congress is liberal. GOP = Give Obama Power.
{1) The ascribed group over the individual citizen The key political unit is not the individual citizen, who forms voluntary associations and works with fellow citizens regardless of race, sex, or national origin, but the ascriptive group (racial, ethnic, or gender) into which one is born. This emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender leads to group consciousness and a deemphasis of the individual’s capacity for choice and for transcendence of ascriptive categories, joining with others beyond the confines of social class, tribe, and gender to create a cohesive nation.
Premise check...congress is in cahoots. So the last thing they’re going to do is stop it.
Blockbusting was a business process of U.S. real estate agents and building developers to convince white property owners to sell their house at low prices out of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood. The agents then sold the houses at much higher prices to black families desperate to escape the overcrowded ghettos.[1] Blockbusting became possible after the legislative and judicial dismantling of legally protected racially segregated real estate practices after World War II, but by the 1980s it largely disappeared as a business practice after changes in law and the real estate market.[2]
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 established federal causes of action against blockbusting, including illegal real estate broker claims that blacks, Hispanics, et al. had or were going to move into a neighborhood, and so devalue the properties. The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity was charged with the task of administering and enforcing this law. In the case of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment authorized the federal government's prohibiting racial discrimination in private housing markets,[6] thus allowing black American legal claims to rescind the usurious land contracts (featuring over-priced houses and higher-than-market mortgage interest rates), as a racist real estate business practice illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which greatly reduced the profitability of blockbusting. Nevertheless, said regulatory and statutory remedies against blockbusting were challenged in court; thus, towns cannot prohibit an owner's placing a “FOR SALE” sign before his house, in order to reduce blockbusting. In the case of Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Willingboro (1977), the Supreme Court ruled that such prohibitions infringe freedom of expression.[7] Moreover, by the 1980s, as evidence of blockbusting practices disappeared, states and cities began rescinding statutes restricting blockbusting. . .
What about that checking account?
What about that electric bill?
What about that Internet bill?
It is almost impossible to get off the grid.
The database may not care but the person in charge might. That database is probably being sold to multiple parties.
It’s not the culture and absence of marriage and fathers, but the neighborhoods. If we just change neighborhoods we’ll be alright.
Cross reference the racial database with the NSA records on the 30 million prominent conservatives or perhaps everyone.
It’s said the Clinton’s left office with 1,500 FBI files.
Chump change!
Obama may well leave office with truck loads of hard drives.
Sorry to those that think Obama will seek a dictatorship. => Obama doesn’t need to be president/dictator to be the biggest power player in the history of the world.
For 2500 years we, whites, have produced the best minds on the planet, the greatest flourishing of the arts and sciences ever seen, the most complex and organized societies. We have White Supremacy/Priveledge, whatever exactly it may be, because we have been the earth’s most successful race. No other has come close. That’s what bothers them the most.
And that other party, to which it was sold, can be hacked.
I say it's Back Door Reparations. Mrs. foxfield says it's Affirmative Action on Steroids.
Explains the obsession with the last census.
dear unix,
re:
“What about that checking account?
What about that electric bill?
What about that Internet bill?
It is almost impossible to get off the grid.”
Last time to dah bank, wuz an election or two ago. How deh gonna know what ah is, tuhday?
Last time ah saw a body at dah light cumpnee, wuz jus’ aftuh Katrina. How deh gonna git d’at?
Mah intunnit ah gits from my friend’s connection. You know hoe d’eh do d’at.
Well, since we have more Mexicans here than whites OR blacks, does that work in our favor? Will we caucasians get the diversity benefits?
Probably not.......
I did NOT know that. *shaking my head*
On topic: Suppose you go to California and establish a new identity as an illegal alien?
Of course.
He will coerce local school districts to give up that info, or be faced with “budget shortages”...
Dear megan,
I LEFT SoCal in the 80’s, when the illegal beaner situation was just kicking up.
I have a connection to Long Beach, and a particular hospital located 6 blocks up from the Queen Mary, many many moons ago.
I’m a half-breed Mojave.
The current condition of Kommunist Kaliphornia is one that I could not tolerate.
As Bartles and James used to say, “Thank you for your support.”
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