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Home Front: Culture Wars
NYC councilwoman: Might be €˜'beneficial' to assign public housing by race
2015-03-30
[NY Post] A Brooklyn city councilwoman wants to know why "blocs" of Asians are living in two Fort Greene housing projects -- and suggested it would be "beneficial" to assign housing by ethnic group.
Apartheid by any other name, but it's ok in this particular case.
"How is it that one specific ethnic group has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers?" Laurie Cumbo, who is black, said at a council hearing on public housing Thursday

The remark, on the Whitman and Ingersoll houses, drew criticism.
....and laughter.
"She certainly could've chosen her words a bit more carefully," said Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a Chinese-American. "The fact is that there are many Asian-American families who have applied to live in public housing."
Yes, we stickie together....how you say, 'like peas in pod.' Everybody wok, pay tax, save, go school. You peopo wok? No? Ah, too bad, so sad. See you some other time, ok ?
Cumbo issued an apology, saying she only wanted to know if the New York City Housing Authority "uses a cultural preference priority component" in picking tenants.

NYCHA Chair Shola Olatoye said it did not, and noted its vacancy rate is less than 1 percent, making such an influx nearly impossible.

Still, Cumbo told The Post, "There could be some benefit to housing people by culture€‰. I think it needs to be discussed."
Yes, discussed after lunch. Where we go'in ?
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Think she's making some assumptions.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-03-30 23:58  

#7  O already beat you to it, genius.

AFFH and FHFA
Posted by: newc   2015-03-30 18:58  

#6  As long as you make the separate housing in Brooklyn equal it's okay.
Posted by: Fred   2015-03-30 18:47  

#5  They should be careful - They are not at the top of the Diversity ladder anymore - Illegals and Latinos are the new 'black'.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-03-30 16:56  

#4  Diversity is like a bus?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-30 16:22  

#3  Still, Cumbo told The Post, "There could be some benefit to housing people by culture. I think it needs to be discussed."

So I guess it depends on which culture benefits, is that it?
Posted by: tu3031   2015-03-30 15:27  

#2  Meanwhile over on the other coast....
Open borders? You haven't seen anything till they're jumping off the freighters once the word gets across the pond. Hey, you elected the 'man'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-30 15:26  

#1  Good Times.
Any time you meet a payment. - Good Times.
Any time you meet a friend. - Good Times.
Any time you're out from under.
Not getting hassled, not getting hustled.
Keepin' your head above water,
Making a wave when you can.

Temporary lay offs. - Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs. - Good Times.
Scratchin' and surviving. - Good Times.
Hangin in a chow line - Good Times.
Ain't we lucky we got 'em - Good Times.


Mmmmmm
Just lookin' out of the window.
Watchin' the asphalt grow.
Thinkin' how it all looks hand-me-down.
Good Times, yeah, yeah Good Times

Keepin' your head above water
Makin' a wave when you can

Temporary lay offs. - Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs. - Good Times.
Ain't we lucky we got 'em - Good Times.
Posted by: airandee   2015-03-30 14:51  

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