We all want to associate with people that share our values.
It is human instinct, a survival mechanism, and creates for a civil society.
The values often include things like religious beliefs, work ethic, educational
desires, housing preferences, and economic status. But when people that believe
that racism is a motivating factor to the makeup of a neighborhood (like the
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan has proposed), programs like the “Affirmatively Furthering
Fair Housing” is born.
This program assumes that if a zip code has too many people
of one race then it must be the result of racism. When you think about the
logic of this type of thought, you can’t find any. I compel you to think about
why you live in the neighborhood you do? Is it because you’re racist? Or is it
because you wanted a good school for your kids, it has a Church you can attend,
maybe a nice shopping area, a short commute to work, open space or in the city,
and it is a place you could afford to buy a house.
When the population demographics are simply looked at from a
race perspective, how do you evenly distribute a Black population of 13%, Hispanic
population of 15%, and the White population at 72% (2010 Census data)
throughout the zip codes of America as this plan intends to do? More
importantly, why would you think that race is a factor in any of it? This is
the true reason why the people in the federal government and the left are so
dangerous and it is why racism persists.
By trying to force people to live together by simply looking
at race, you stir up resentment between the races. The assumption that race is
why people live in a particular neighborhood, and then forcing that
neighborhood to make housing exceptions in their neighborhood based on race, is
divisive. What I mean by exceptions is the fact that forcing people into a neighborhood
without the necessary means to live there undermines the economics of the
neighborhood. The people that live in that neighborhood have worked, saved, and
sacrificed everything to be able to live there. Now you are going to give it to
someone that hasn’t done the same to get there like everyone else regardless of
race has had to do? That fosters resentment. Not to mention the fact that they
are using the tax dollars they have taken from you to make this possible.
Whenever you undermine the values that it takes to live
somewhere, you foster resentment toward the people that receive that handout. Racism
is on the rise in America not because we are racist, but because racists are
stirring the pot with programs like the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing”
program. No matter what race a person is, if they can afford a house in the
neighborhood on their own merit, they will be accepted into that community in
99% of all of the communities in America. I know the liberals and left that
push these programs don’t believe that but the rest of us know it as a fact.
Racism is on the rise in America because we have a President
and an administration that believes the answer to “fixing” racism is by being
racist. To look exclusively at race to “fix” and “diversify” a neighborhood is
to not understand what makes human beings tick. Common values don’t rely
exclusively on race. Religious beliefs do not rely exclusively on race. Work
Ethic does not rely exclusively on race. Living in a city or suburb does not
rely exclusively on race. All of these values are based on individual choices
that people make when living their lives. They have nothing to do with race.
All races make similar choices when they choose where to live. It is just that
race is an easy assumption to make for people that are racist. That is the seed
of racism and we need to stop watering it if we want it to die…
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