US HUD Considers Forced Integration in Marin County, California

It's one thing if government requires entities to integrate in some fashion when government money is paying the bill, but what kind of insanity abounds when anyone can believe government has the authority to address where people choose to live, or what the racial make-up of any neighborhood should be in private?

Government isn't new to social engineering. Anyone recall Soul City, NC? A planned community of 18,000 inspired in the social upheaval of 1969? One that was "first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality." Yet by "1980 there were 35 housing units, a clinic, a tennis court, and a pool. About 150 people were employed in the city."

Here was government building a city that was as its name indicates, targeted to a specific ethnic group in some foolishly misguided effort at Affirmative Action it would seem. I maintain it is not government's job to build enclaves for specific races or ethnic groups. Government has no business ever considering getting involved in where individuals live in their own private housing for which government does not pay. Yet that is precisely what it seems government is contemplating in Marin County, Ca..

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development finds "Marin had "failed to comply" with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and two other anti-discrimination statutes." And of course Marin County authorities are in a full scale "heave to" so they won't disappoint fellow progressives. Marin County, a San Francisco burb across the bridge, is a rather tony and exclusive place - lots of money, prestige and such. Did I forget to mention it's also a haven of progressive/liberal thought? Marin is a cross between the East Village and Haight-Ashbury in the scenic mountain countryside overlooking the bay. Odd...progressives telling the rest of us how to live yet not practicing their own medicine. Imagine that!

As one black Marin County resident indignantly states "I pick up my grand son, I take him to school. I see maybe four Latino children there, and one African American-two maybe...that's-something's wrong...why they're [the county officials] not doing more?Now they have to be forced to do more." Hmmm? Progressives think someone needs to "be forced to do more" and in this case that "more" is, as the Marin Community Development Agency recommends "amending zoning regulations to ease the construction of new apartments, passing new laws requiring new developments to offer housing at below-market rates, and stepping up programs to combat discrimination by landlords and realtors."

"Offer housing at below-market rates," huh? Progressive government runs rampant once again dictating private business rates. The same people who railed on that conservatism wants to tell everyone how to live, yet the evidence of the progressive indictment is woefully lacking. But here is undeniable proof progressive's do want to dictate where one lives on their own property. So who is it again who is busy sticking their nose in one's private business? It's not conservatism.

Government can integrate public and assisted housing but since when does that authority extend to one's private choice of abode? There is seemingly no end to the desires of progressives to dictate to private individuals things that are totally up to one's own discretion. It's called autonomy. It's called "free from government intrusion" into one's private life. Instead progressive's seem a bit busy staying up into the wee hours of the morning building their little models of their version of social engineering because they are worried where people live...their own versions of Hitler's "lebensraum" or "living space," as it seems.

I think Frank Costanza said it best...."Serenity now, serenity now!"