“New Deal” Progressives and Their Policies Created the Nation’s “Ghettos” Decades Age

Quite a telling bit of truth and history on the establishment of “ghettos” and segregation in the United States from Richard Rothstein via NPR (yes, that NPR)…

Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, has spent years studying the history of residential segregation in America.

“We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls ‘de-facto’ — just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle class neighborhoods or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because there was white flight,” Rothstein tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross.

“It was not the unintended effect of benign policies,” he says. “It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that’s the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies.”

On using the word “ghetto”

One of the ways in which we forget our history is by sanitizing our language and pretending that these problems don’t exist. We have always recognized that these were “ghettos.” A ghetto is, as I define it, a neighborhood which is homogeneous and from which there are serious barriers to exit. That’s the technical definition of a ghetto.

Robert Weaver, the first African-American member of the Cabinet appointed by President Johnson as his secretary of Housing and Urban Development, described many of the policies that I’ve described today in a book he published in 1948 called The Negro Ghetto.

The Kerner Commission referred to the ghetto.

This is a term that we no longer use because we’re embarrassed to talk about it, and we need to confront our history and stop sanitizing our language and talk openly about what we’ve done as a nation and what we need to do to undo it. And we can’t talk openly if we’re going to use euphemisms instead of being explicit about what the reality is.

On how the New Deal’s Public Works Administration led to the creation of segregated ghettos

Its policy was that public housing could be used only to house people of the same race as the neighborhood in which it was located, but, in fact, most of the public housing that was built in the early years was built in integrated neighborhoods, which they razed and then built segregated public housing in those neighborhoods. So public housing created racial segregation where none existed before. That was one of the chief policies.

On the Federal Housing Administration’s overtly racist policies in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s

Read the rest…

I seriously doubt you would ever hear this discussed, without fabricated and spun caveats, on MSNBC or CNN.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin delved into the above enlightenment (AUDIO).

What would be the reason and purpose to do this?

Well, after these over half a century of socialist-based programs, with generations of families trapped in these urban blight areas locked onto them from cradle to grave, where else do you think the democrat party would seed, sow, and reap a guaranteed an easy voting base?

The funny thing is … No. Not “funny”, but frightening. The frightening thing is, in the last couple years, this past year most especially, it is the black liberals/Progressives insinuating there needs to be segregation for blacks, and many in faculty seats on the nation’s college/university campuses. ‘Black only’ police departments in black communities. ‘Black only’ local government officials in black communities. ‘Black only’ areas away from some percieved ‘white privilege’ intimidation/whatever.

I chose the above photo for this post to point out how one city was completely leveled by the most powerful weapon ever known to man, at that time, with thousands dead or dying, and they spent the following decades rebuilding. Our Detroit, on the other hand, was a bustling city at that same time but the entry of progressive/socialist democrat policies, along with union selfishness, crumbled a city to ruins in the span of time Hiroshima climbed out of the ashes.

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