Another example from last year's Bush State Department report to the UN CERD.
While the report righfully touts much progress in confronting discrimination in all areas and at the same time, IMO, sugar coats the administrations enforcement effort in ending discrimination, this section on housing discrimination shouldnt be overlooked.:
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HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research has published several volumes estimating the national level of racial and ethnic housing discrimination against African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In addition, statewide estimates were drawn up for Native Americans and Alaska Natives in three states. The methodology involved matched pairs of testers who sought housing in the sales or rental market; one tester was a non-Hispanic White, and the second was of a minority race or ethnicity. The reports showed that discrimination in the sales market had declined significantly in the decade prior to the report’s issuance. However, the decline was more modest in the rental market for African Americans, and there was no change at all for Hispanics. The findings also generally indicated that the treatment shown to the non-Hispanic White tester remained more favorable than that shown to the minority tester, further indicting that the problem of housing discrimination persists in many parts of the nation.
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Report
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
How is it that immigrants learn how to game the system AS IT IS? They too many know know the bow of the ship, but they LEARN what the requirements are and learn how to participate within those confines. Yet, the black community continues to decry being educated as being a bad thing.
Now this article by a gentleman from Nassau writes it up better than I can. Why can't the group take care of themselves as others have?
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No other immigrant group was brought here by force and lived through 200 years of institutional racism that still persists in many areas.
Damn...why is that so fucking hard to understand?
You just dont want to acknowledge that white high school kids have an advantage in college admission testing.....you dont want to acknowledge that white small business owners have an advantage in access to lending....you dont want to acknowledge that white defendants are likely to fare better in the criminal justice system....you dont want to acknowledge that housing discrimination based on race still exists.
I give up!