Eminent protection is for property owners. Not renters (Af. Am. or otherwise).
To suggest it (generally) targets Af. Am. is silly. All over the country this issue is arising.
Black people want some sort of racial protection, of matters that effect others equally. So then the social pimps prop to argue everything that happens to black people is racial.
What's sad is 'they' believe it, leaving the race to battle incorrectly.
Eric,
Great insights. On the other hand, I can see why the Institute for Justice would make this kind of argument. While I agree eminent domain abuse doesn't generally happen by race, when a racial minority is disproportionately affected, especially blacks, drawing attention to this fact can help one's points carry more political weight and attract more media attention than they might otherwise, thereby helping alleviate the problem for everyone, but also at the same time empowering those you call the social pimps. So what to do? It's a tough call.
Love & liberty,
<<< starchild >>>
Dear Eric;
While eminent domain does target property woners - eminent domain can
target the renters of those properties. Just consider what happened
in the Western Addition then the Fillmore and soon the
Bayview/Hunters Point.
A massive major Diaspora of black families and the black business
community - all in the name of redevelopment - but the reality is as
always far worse - the deliberate wanton destruction of a racial
community - the rendering of families and neighborhood and local
businesses.
Even today - literally today - the same methodolgy will be used to
relentlessly destroy what remains of SF's last black community - and
the worst part of it all the destruction will be done using property
tax dollars taken from Bayview to force familes out and destroy their
homes and businesses and their community.
And for what price glory? To make a better Bayview just like the
better Fillmore and the better Western Addition. Unh Hunh! Pure BS!
There are still blocks of the Fillmore that are nothing more than
vacant lots.
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
--- In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, "eric dupree"
<dupreeconsults@...> wrote:
Eminent protection is for property owners. Not renters (Af. Am. or
otherwise).
To suggest it (generally) targets Af. Am. is silly. All over the
country this issue is arising.
Black people want some sort of racial protection, of matters that
effect others equally. So then the social pimps prop to argue
everything that happens to black people is racial.
What's sad is 'they' believe it, leaving the race to battle
incorrectly.
> From: "Robert Parkhurst" <rmparkhurst@...>
> To: "lpsf-discuss" <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [lpsf-discuss] FW: New Study Details Effects of Eminent
Domain Abuse on African Americans
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:16:21 -0800
>
>
>
>
> Robert Parkhurst
> rmparkhurst@...
>
>
> From: Christina Walsh
> To: IJ Distribution
> Sent: 2/14/2007 2:48:44 PM
> Subject: New Study Details Effects of Eminent Domain Abuse on
> African Americans
>
>
> Institute for Justice
> 901 N. Glebe Road Suite 900 Arlington, VA 22203 (703)
> 682-9320 FAX (703) 682-9321
> Home Page: WWW.IJ.org
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
> February 14, 2007
> New Study Details Devastating Effects of
> Eminent Domain Abuse on African Americans
> Arlington, Va. - "Eminent domain has become what the founding
> fathers sought to prevent: a tool that takes from the poor and
the
> politically weak to give to the rich and politically powerful,?
> concludes Dr. Mindy Fullilove in her new report released today
> titled, "Eminent Domain & African Americans: What is the Price
of
> the Commons?? The report is available at
> http://www.castlecoalition.org/publications/index.html.
> Eminent Domain & African Americans is the first in a new series
of
> independently authored reports published by the Institute for
> Justice, Perspectives on Eminent Domain Abuse, which will examine
> the different aspects of eminent domain abuse from the vantage
> point of noted national experts. The release of this inaugural
> report is particularly timely this month, as millions around the
> nation learn about African American history.
> In this study, Dr. Fullilove, a research psychiatrist at the New
> York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical
> psychiatry and public health at Columbia University, examines the
> effects of eminent domain abuse on the African American
community.
> Focusing specifically on the Federal Housing Act (FHA) of 1949,
Dr.
> Fullilove finds that ?[b]etween 1949 and 1973 ? 2,532 projects
were
> carried out in 992 cities that displaced one million people,
> two-thirds of them African American,? making blacks "five times
> more likely to be displaced than they should have been given
their
> numbers in the population.?
> Although urban renewal under the FHA was discontinued in 1973,
Dr.
> Fullilove reported "the tools of urban renewal had been honed
> through 20 years of projects. Politicians and developers found
> that they could repackage eminent domain and government subsidies
> in many new ways, facilitating the taking of land for `higher
> uses.'"
> Dr. Fullilove shares the story of David Jenkins-who lost his
> Philadelphia home to urban renewal in the 1950s-to illustrate the
> devastating impacts of forced displacement. "Within these
> neighborhoods there existed social, political, cultural, and
> economic networks that functioned for both individual and common
> good,? explains Dr. Fullilove. "These networks were
the `commons'
> of the residents, a system of complex relationships, shared
> activities, and common goals"-the loss of which cannot be
replaced
> or remedied.
> "What the government takes from people is not a home, with a
small
> `h', but Home in the largest sense of the word: a place in the
> world, a community, neighbors and services, a social and cultural
> milieu, an economic anchor that provides security during the ups
> and downs of life, a commons that sustains the group by offering
> shared goods and services,? continues Dr. Fullilove.
> "Dr. Fullilove's pioneering research reinforces the need for
state
> and federal legislative reforms of eminent domain laws,? said
> Steven Anderson, director of the Castle Coalition, which helps
> homeowners nationwide fight eminent domain abuse. The Castle
> Coalition is a grassroots organization coordinated by the
Institute
> for Justice, which litigated the Kelo eminent domain case before
> the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005. Anderson said, "Property owners
> nationwide-particularly minorities, as evidenced by this paper-
will
> remain vulnerable to seizures by tax-hungry governments for
> land-hungry developers until the use of eminent domain is reined
in
> and limited to only true public uses.?
> A recent example of eminent domain targeting African
> American communities can be found in Riviera Beach, Fla. Despite
> the state's new restrictions on eminent domain, city officials
are
> pursuing a plan to remove thousands of mostly low-income, African
> American residents from their waterfront homes and businesses to
> make way for a luxury housing and yachting complex. The
Institute
> for Justice is representing property owners there who want to
> protect their rights and save what rightfully belongs to them.
> In addition to her clinical and teaching duties, Dr. Fullilove is
> the author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods
Hurts
> America, and What We Can Do About It, which takes a powerful look
> at the effects of urban renewal on African Americans. She coined
> the term "root shock" to describe the devastating effects of
forced
> displacement.
> # # #
> Christina Walsh
> Castle Coalition Coordinator
> Institute for Justice
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> Arlington, VA 22203
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