Say “amen” to recent remarks by the branch president of the Chicago Far-South Suburban NAACP regarding the issue of black-Caucasian racial mix in housing (Jan. 24).
This writer considers housing programs to manage the number of African-Americans in buildings, neighborhoods and communities-created to affect some imposed “balanced” population mix between blacks and whites-from a highly personal perspective, as well as from within a racial framework. I know that such programs must necessarily seek to prevent my family from living “next door” in order to fulfill a goal of preventing “clustering” of African-Americans.
Proponents of managed black-white population housing mix display no consideration for African-American familial ties, ties that are honored by and in all other peoples.
Manipulators who revere their own families, nationalities and traditions to the point of being willing to defend those reverences with war blink away these homages with respect to the housing choices of African-Americans to appease white preferences.
Far-South Suburban NAACP President Whiters is right: European-Americans have a housing racial problem for which they attempt to hold everyone else (but themselves) responsible.
