Gov. Tracking Racial Diversity of Your Neighborhood

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Not only is the government tracking your phone calls and emails and forcing you to buy health care, soon they'll be tracking your neighborhood's racial diversity.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said in a speech to the NAACP that HUD is now going to "shape a future where ladders of opportunity are available for all Americans". To do this HUD will deploy a mapping tool that "will provide data for every neighborhood in the country, detailing the access African American, Latino, Asian, and other communities have to local assets.....".

Translation: The Government is now going to track the racial diversity of all neighborhoods and where they see a homogeneous (i.e. "white neighborhoods") they are going to "help people gain access to those neighborhoods by channeling investments into under-served areas" (i.e. they're going to intervene and build Section 8 and other low cost housing in those areas for non-whites).

Donovan says "Make no mistake, this is a big deal, With the HUD budget alone, we are talking about billions of dollars".

So if a family worked hard and saved and eventually bought their dream house out in the 'burbs, which happens to be a mostly white neighborhood, doesn't this logic imply they're racist? And, given Big Brother's meddling ways, Will this information about what kind of neighborhood a person lives in be used against people applying for government jobs or running for political office in the future?

HUD had already started to lay on guilt a couple of years ago with their radio spots where the little girl tells her Mom, "I really like the people you work with" and then the little girl goes on to describe how the people her Mom works with are all races, but then the little girl shames her Mom and you the listener by saying, "Mom, how come where we live everybody looks just like us?".

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Hmmm...haven't they been doing this for decades? What the heck is the census about?

In corporate America we preach making fact based decisions based on data. Why shouldn't I expect the government to do the same? I'd rather they base decisions on readily available data than the old cronyism/lobbyist culture.

Does this have the risk of being abused? Absolutely. But I'd argue that exposing this data is better than the current patronage system.
 
I've already been classified as a racist so I don't really care anymore, but Diversity is not a right and should not be forced down anyone's throat.

I have grown up and attended schools or all kinds of mixed races and economic social scales......

I don't care what color you are or what nationality, I just want to live in a crime free area, and I want people in my neighborhood to have the same attitude. I want people of the same socio economic level as me, as I tend to find those people have the same values and beliefs as I do.

This is government socialism beyond reasonable government intervention and colossal waste of money. Hell in North Texas towns like Flower Mound are being blackmailed to put up apartment complexes already, what is next?
 
LTS,

Self-segragation is very prevalent and I'm amazed by it sometimes. I'm in the Army and I'm constantly surprised at how women and minorities behave in social settings.

As an officer when I go to a social event with government employees and other service members I tend to hang out with those near my rank +/- a grade. Black officers tend to gravitate more to black people regardless of rank/grade rather than other officers of similar rank. Women tend to do this also. I view the military as being pretty democratic and I get along with both the minorities and the women very well so I'm always a little surprised when they self-segragate like this.
 
larry T posted
,"As soon as the government starts forcing people into those situations, especially in neighborhoods, resentment builds and it destroys the process. "

Yes exactly.
Why does " the gov't" always think laws or policies will solve people to people interactions?
 
Believe what you want about how this is an invasion of privacy, but these data have been available and mapped for a long time. There's much more important things going on about which to be outraged.

Red = white, green = Asian, yellow = Hispanic, blue = black...

NYC:
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Houston:
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Dallas:
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I don't care that they have the widely available data. I care that they want to "overcome historical patterns of segregation", most likely through some type of ill advised social engineering that will backfire.
 

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