By: Ken Hansen

Ken Hansen — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:20:42 +0000

This lengthy op-ed fails to mention the cost of housing, something that has exploded since the time of Nixon, and while racism remains problematic the very cost of housing has been the most punitive change – we no longer have the ability to house poor or lower middle class affordably in communities regardless of race. (Needless to say, if Romney’s dad were running in this joke of an election, we’d all line up and vote for him.)
Pro-Pub has Montgomery Country quite wrong, all the way into the 70s there was still a stark division between wealthy white and poorer black neighborhoods, which only today has begun to be gentrified out of existence by enormous price increases.
Montgomery Country MD remains attractive, and extremely wealthy, so once an individual has “enough” money, there is less concern for civil rights as far as housing is concerned. However, during the bubble, countless families (white, black, hispanic,etc) were attacked when Banks (backed by either indifferent or co-conspiratorial Federal oversight) preyed on them by giving them designed to fail loans. This happened widely in Maryland, and even in wealthy MC.
Disparties in income have exceeded or improved upon, systematic abuse that widespread racism once did. That won’t prevent deceitful propaganda that uses race as a “Government mandated cause” of the housing crisis, or terrible attempts at Justice by using race as a enforcement tool. But as long as the heat is kept away from Banksters, inaccurate analysis and political grandstanding will be pumped forth. PP remains a poor news outlet, objectively missing the forest for the trees.

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By: Ken Hansen