Color-Coding the Suburbs (And a Response)

Frank Roman

<font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>Against citizen’s wishes,</span></font><font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”> federal government throws down gauntlet for more racial  ‘integration’ </span><br style=”font-weight: bold;” /><br />The bad news is that Westchester County, the sprawling suburb just
north of New York City, has been pressured to settle a federal lawsuit
brought by liberal activists over &quot;affordable&quot; housing. The worse news
is that the Obama Administration wants the settlement to be a template
for the rest of the nation.</font>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>The three-year-old lawsuit alleged that Westchester had accepted
federal housing funds but failed to provide enough affordable housing
and reduce segregation in some of its wealthier communities, such as
Scarsdale and Chappaqua, home to Bill and Hillary Clinton. In February
a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan ruled that Westchester’s
integration efforts were insufficient, and rather than risk losing out
on more federal money, county officials struck a deal with the
Department of Housing and Urban Development this week. Within seven
years, the county will construct or acquire 750 homes or apartments,
630 of which must be located in communities that are less than 3% black
and 7% Hispanic.</font></p>

<font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>&quot;We’re clearly messaging other jurisdictions across the country that
there has been a significant change in the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, and we’re going to ask them to pursue similar goals
as well,&quot; said HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims. Westchester County, he
added, &quot;can serve as a model for building strong, inclusive sustainable
communities in suburban areas across the entire United States.&quot;<br /><br /><a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346862154177606.html”>Continue…</a></font><br /><br /><font size=”2″><span style=”font-weight: bold; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>A response to this article from our friends at Resisting Defamation</span></font>:<br /><br /><meta content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ http-equiv=”Content-Type” /><meta content=”Word.Document” name=”ProgId” /><meta content=”Microsoft Word 12″ name=”Generator” /><meta content=”Microsoft Word 12″ name=”Originator” /><link href=”file:///C:DOCUME~1MYPC~1LOCALS~1Tempmsohtmlclip11clip_filelist.xml” rel=”File-List” /><link href=”file:///C:DOCUME~1MYPC~1LOCALS~1Tempmsohtmlclip11clip_themedata.thmx” rel=”themeData” /><link href=”file:///C:DOCUME~1MYPC~1LOCALS~1Tempmsohtmlclip11clip_colorschememapping.xml” rel=”colorSchemeMapping” /><!–[if gte mso 9><xml>
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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>We were shocked to see you validate
the hate term &quot;white flight&quot; in an editorial, &quot;Color-Coding
the Suburbs,&quot; on Saturday, 8/15, p. A12.  Our organization, Resisting
Defamation, has long recognized the term to be both a slur on the diverse white
American peoples and a hate caricature depicting them as weak and fearful.</span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>To the contrary, your editorial was
a description of ethnic cleansing which always follows the rapid and
thoughtless introduction of new comers in an established neighborhood.  On
that point, your editorial was correctly reasoned, but claiming the problem is
one of &quot;white flight&quot; is just a way of blaming the families who
are victims and are forced for one reason or another to find new
homes and schools for their children.</span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>This cuts several ways.  We see
in Southern California the rapid departure of African American families
following sudden increases of Latino families.  We see in Northern
California examples of Asian Americans moving out of neighborhoods when African
Americans suddenly move in.</span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>You will never shed light on this
situation if you treat one group, Euro-Americans, as weak and fearful, and
other groups as moved by political, legal, or economic forces.</span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”>Bo Sears</span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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<p class=”MsoNormal” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”><span style=”font-size: 10pt;”><a href=”http://www.resistingdefamation.org/”>www.ResistingDefamation.org</a></span><span><o:p /></span></p>

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2009-08-15