Alarmist article indicates Bush Administration eroding civil rights...

[Maetryx]

Article on CNN.com



<< We may awaken from our current preoccupation with national security to find ourselves a nation more divided, less equal, and therefore less secure, than before... >>

<< "These decisions have reversed the progress of earlier years and led to a trend towards resegregating America," the report said.
It said this trend was reinforced by failures to apply fair housing laws and the collapse of federal programs designed to give poor people access to affordable housing outside of inner-city ghettos.
The Bush administration was spurring these developments by nominating conservatives opposed to using federal authority to protect civil rights to key positions, the report said. >>

[emphasis mine] [eye rolls mine]

Good grief.

 

[RedFox1]

Our society likes to try to tear down people who get too popular, for some reason. Bush has an ~80% approval rating, so he's doomed to be a target for the immediate future.

I've never heard of this commitee before now. Kind of scary that stuff like that can make it to CNN. But seeing as they don't cite any specific violations, other than blanket accusations about not supporting affirmative action, I'm not too worried about them getting much credibility from that article.

-Russ

 

[Turin39789]

Bush was a target before the war, when more than half the voting country didnt chose him, and he is a target now that people are starting to move on

 

[Maetryx]

<< I've never heard of this commitee before now. Kind of scary that stuff like that can make it to CNN. But seeing as they don't cite any specific violations, other than blanket accusations about not supporting affirmative action, I'm not too worried about them getting much credibility from that article.
-Russ >>



Good point. Maybe I'm the alarmist. Here's a Link to the Citizen's Commission for Civil Rights. I wonder what it means when the CNN article says "The commission [was] founded as a bipartisan body in 1982 to monitor federal policies...." Who's in it? Who founded it? How do "they" make sure it is bipartisan? I guess I'll have to read my own link.

 

[glenn1]

<< It said this trend was reinforced by failures to apply fair housing laws and the collapse of federal programs designed to give poor people access to affordable housing outside of inner-city ghettos. >>



Maybe i'm missing something, but if you're poor, that means your affordable housing (for you anyway) is likely to be in the inner-city ghetto, not a split-level Colonial out in the suburbs. As you work your way up the educational and professional ladder, your ability to move to better housing commensurately improves. What's so hard to understand about living within your means? No one holds a gun to the head of anyone in this country, saying they HAVE to live in a certain neighborhood their entire lives. Hell, i grew up in a row house within a stones throw of the state prison in an area of Wilmington affectionately known as "The Bucket," then when our family got a bit of money together, we moved to a small ranch house, then a nicer home in a decent suburb (well, my parents did anyway, long after i was out of the house)

Giving the government a hard time for not "giving poor people access to affordable housing outside of inner-city ghettos" is like making a fuss over not making nice, fancy, 5-star French restaurants available to the poor.