Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database

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A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.” Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites. This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

The granddaddy of them all is the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled out earlier this month to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code. It will map every US neighborhood by four racial groups — white, Asian, black or African-American, and Hispanic/Latino — and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances.

Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, headed by former Congressional Black Caucus leader Mel Watt, is building its own database for racially balancing home loans. The so-called National Mortgage Database Project will compile 16 years of lending data, broken down by race, and hold everything from individual credit scores and employment records. Mortgage contracts won’t be the only financial records vacuumed up by the database. According to federal documents, the repository will include “all credit lines,” from credit cards to student loans to car loans — anything reported to credit bureaus. This is even more information than the IRS collects. The FHFA will also pry into your personal assets and debts and whether you have any bankruptcies. The agency even wants to know the square footage and lot size of your home, as well as your interest rate. FHFA will share the info with Obama’s brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts more like a civil-rights agency, aggressively investigating lenders for racial bias.

I don't have a problem with equal rights and access for minorities, but there is one problem

What do you think ATS?

In someways, good, but something is missing.

Such databases have never before existed. Obama is presiding over the largest consolidation of personal data in US history. He is creating a diversity police state where government race cops and civil-rights lawyers will micromanage demographic outcomes in virtually every aspect of society. The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-reparations infrastructure perpetually fed by racial data that will outlast his administration.

I simply cannot WAIT for the day I can check off a box and list myself as a Reptilian-Alien-Human Hybrid.

I understand they have some really nice and clean gated communities.

a reply to: Stormdancer777

I'd probably skew the results.

I have it much better than white folks.

I have a job!

a reply to: Stormdancer777

How is it equality when you grant privileges to a person based upon the color of their skin?

It's all about division of this country and nothing at all about equality! Obama will go down in history as the "Great Divider"!

errrr, that's is if it will even be permissible in the near future to bring up actual historical facts not approved by the Gubment?

originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Stormdancer777

I'd probably skew the results.

I have it much better than white folks.

I have a job!

You hit the nail on the head, what about the overwhelming amount of poor white folks, who speaks for them?

a reply to: Stormdancer777

None of this is new, it's disingenuous to claim that it is.
Governments have ALWAYS done this, at least in democratic countries where they have a responsibility to represent the public and provide adequate services to all, equally.

The only thing that has changed while Obama has been in office (and note, not CREATED BY Obama all on his "evil" lonesome) is the use of technology to better handle and process data that would be scattered and fragmented, and therefore difficult to translate into provision of services.

I really don't understand what the problem is here, unless someone believes that they are entitled to more services and more representation than another group of people?

All this does is supply the federal government with access to manageable data for provision of services to all.

originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: Stormdancer777

How is it equality when you grant privileges to a person based upon the color of their skin?

It's not opportunity-based equality. We have that.

It's outcome-based equality. Er. . . um. . . . socialism.

a reply to: Stormdancer777

This isn't a "secret" at all. Obama's Weekly Address

On the Fair Housing Act:

That’s why, this week, my Administration announced that we’ll make it easier for communities to implement this law. We’re using data on housing and neighborhood conditions to help cities identify the areas that need the most help. We’re doing more to help communities meet their own goals. Plus, by opening this data to everybody, everyone in a community – not just elected officials – can weigh in. If you want a bus stop added near your home, or more affordable housing nearby, now you’ll have the data you need to make your case.

a reply to: Rocker2013

I think everyone should be equal, I live in a diverse inner city neighborhood, I see poverty affects people of ALL color.

originally posted by: Stormdancer777
You hit the nail on the head, what about the overwhelming amount of poor white folks, who speaks for them?

Exactly the same system works for them!
You seem to thing this is a biased system designed exclusively for other racial groups and not you. This is about ALL OF SOCIETY, not about just black people, or just Asian citizens, or just Christians, or Muslims, or any other group.

"the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”"

This covers all citizens of all economic standing, all social backgrounds, all racial groups... this is not something especially for Black Americans, and the fact that it's being taken that way by people who seem to be desperate to make themselves out to be a "victim" in this says a lot about those individuals.

a reply to: Rocker2013

I am sure the Government only has our best interest at heart.

Nothing to see here.

a reply to: Rocker2013

I believe poor white males are forgotten and are being lost in the shuffle.

From what I experience around me.
I know this is a touchy subject, I see the poverty everyday. I have lived it, there are not many really good opportunities for people around here.

originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Rocker2013

I think everyone should be equal, I live in a diverse inner city neighborhood, I see poverty affects persons of ALL color.

Isn't it sad how we hear about ghettos and how the man is keeping them down, but yet show a picture of a "red neck ghetto" "ie trailer park" and those who preach diversity are the first to bash someone white for living in a trailer park?

Please shoot me? I'll U2U you my address?

originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Rocker2013

I think everyone should be equal, I live in a diverse inner city neighborhood, I see poverty affects people of ALL color.

And this system will help alleviate that.
What part of this are you not getting? You seem to be trying to claim that this is some special service exclusively for Black Americans (claiming it's "positive discrimination" right?) when this is open to ALL GROUPS OF CITIZENS.

This is not about black Americans being given more, this is about the government developing a more practical way to identify areas of impoverishment (regardless of racial demographics) and being able to serve those communities more effectively.

The NYpost is making this about race, when it's really nothing more than improving the provision of services to all.

originally posted by: stosh64
a reply to: Rocker2013

I am sure the Government only has our best interest at heart.

Nothing to see here.

So because you wear a tin foil hat everything the government does is nefarious?
Right, okay.

Facepalm.

a reply to: Stormdancer777

i think if they actually do that, the government will see that poverty and inequality affect all races, not just "minortities" in my area the under educated white people are the poorest people.

originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Rocker2013

I believe poor white males are forgotten and are being lost in the shuffle.

From what I experience around me.
I know this is a touchy subject, I see the poverty everyday. I have lived it, there are not many really good opportunities for people around here.

Do you have data to support that view?
I understand that different communities will have different perceptions about who is being failed and how, but that doesn't mean they have it any worse off than another group of people in another city.

Then again, gathering and viewing the data will help to fix that.

Seems to me it's another case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
This data will be used to help all, not just one racial group.

How can you seemingly be critical of something that will help the group you claim needs that help?

It's a secret census agenda.

They will target "differences" in the name of "equality".

originally posted by: seeker1963

originally posted by: Stormdancer777
a reply to: Rocker2013

I think everyone should be equal, I live in a diverse inner city neighborhood, I see poverty affects persons of ALL color.

Isn't it sad how we hear about ghettos and how the man is keeping them down, but yet show a picture of a "red neck ghetto" "ie trailer park" and those who preach diversity are the first to bash someone white for living in a trailer park?

Please shoot me? I'll U2U you my address?

seeker, true that about the trailer park comment, also redneck hillbilly and white trash

His plan to cull the white race has been exposed!