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    Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut

    Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut

    By Paul Sperry

    Posted 11/08/2012 06:02 PM ET

    f your organization has a policy or practice that doesn't benefit minorities equally, watch out: The Obama administration could sue you for racial discrimination under a dubious legal theory that many argue is unconstitutional.

    President Obama intends to close "persistent gaps" between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates.

    His remedy — short of new affirmative-action legislation — is to sue financial companies, schools and employers based on "disparate impact" complaints — a stealthy way to achieve racial preferences, opposed 2 to 1 by Americans.

    Under this broad interpretation of civil-rights law, virtually any organization can be held liable for race bias if it maintains a policy that negatively impacts one racial group more than another — even if it has no racist motive and applies the policy evenly across all groups.

    Equal Outcomes

    This means that even race-neutral rules for mortgage underwriting and consumer credit scoring potentially can be deemed racist if prosecutors can produce statistics showing they tend to result in adverse outcomes for blacks or Latinos.

    Already, Attorney General Eric Holder has used the club of disparate-impact lawsuits to beat almost $500 million in loan set-asides and other claims out of the nation's largest banks.

    In addition to the financial settlements — which include millions in funding for affordable-housing activists — Bank of America, Wells Fargo and SunTrust have all agreed to adopt more minority-friendly lending policies.

    Though the administration seeks equal credit outcomes, regardless of risk, across the entire banking industry, it doesn't have to sue every bank to achieve its goal. As a prophylactic against similar prosecution, IBD has learned the American Bankers Association recently advised its 5,000 members to give rejected minority loan applicants a "second look," which it says "can result in suggested changes in underwriting standards."

    Also, the administration sent a chill through the financial industry earlier this year when it announced its new credit watchdog agency will join Justice, as well as HUD, in using the disparate-impact doctrine to enforce civil-rights laws.

    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray warned companies the agency will "protect consumers from unfair lending practices — as well as those that have a disparate impact on communities of color." He added:

    "That doctrine is applicable for all of the credit markets we touch, including mortgages, student loans, credit cards and auto loans," as well as small-business loans.

    Hiring Criminals

    For the first time, the nation's consumer credit reporting agencies, including Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, will come under federal review. CFPB examiners will subject these companies and others to an "effects test" to make sure credit transactions are racially balanced.

    Those who reject minority applicants for credit cards or charge them higher loan rates had better be prepared to prove to Cordray's diversity cops they aren't racist. Many have already decided it's safer to give black and Latino applicants preferential treatment, which of course is racism of another kind.

    Other targets of the administration's "racial justice" juggernaut include: standardized academic testing, professional licensing examinations, employee background checks, voter ID requirements, student disciplinary codes, prison sentencing guidelines — you name it.

    The goal is to equalize outcomes based on race without regard for performance or merit.

    According to Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, President Obama is committed to "aggressively pushing the 'disparate impact' approach to civil-rights enforcement" through which "the federal government insists that the numbers come out right — even if it means that policemen and firefighters cannot be tested, that companies should hire criminals, that loans must be made to the uncreditworthy, and that — I kid you not — whether pollution is acceptable depends on whether dangerous chemicals are spread in a racially balanced way."

    Last month, moreover, the Education Department pressured the Oakland school district to impose "targeted reductions" in the number of black students suspended.

    The department charged that Oakland's disciplinary policy has a "disparate impact" on African-American students, who are suspended at higher rates for violent behavior.

    The Oakland case is the first of some 20 such investigations of school districts across the U.S. "The Obama administration is pressuring school districts not to suspend violent or disruptive black students if they have already disciplined 'too many' black students," said Competitive Enterprise Institute counsel Hans Bader.

    Education is also investigating a "disparate impact" complaint recently filed by the NAACP alleging the entrance exam used by selective New York City high schools illegally discriminates against blacks.

    Through disparate impact suits, Holder has forced banks to adopt racial lending quotas and even open branches in minority neighborhoods.

    He's authorized five more lending-discrimination suits, while opening another 30 investigations against banks. And he's just getting warmed up.

    "The question is not does (affirmative action) end, but when does it begin?" Holder said in February at a Columbia University forum. "When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?"

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    The irony in the "equal outcomes" nonsense is that it completely misses the point. Black males cause problems because they have so few role models. Many of the adult males are in jail or otherwise unemployed.

    Making loans to underqualified applicants? That's what got us into the toxic mortgaqe mess in the first place.

    Don't suspend black students? Look for increased enrollment in Charter Schools.

    Solutions are available. In December, 2009, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote 'Bama, calling for T.A.R.P. funds to be redirected to job creation and job training. The Caucus had in mind jobs which could be done in peoples' own neighborhoods. Applying weather stripping to windows is one example. 'Bama has never publicly acknowledged the letter, but some of his campaign ads mentioned jobs and job training. I suspect that now that its possible for some of his precious Undocumented Democrats to apply for jobs, he'll throw a few crumbs to the poorest Americans. (The Caucus wanted the funds to be spent on American citizens.)

    There is a from of discipline where kids are counseled and urged to admit their wrongdoing and write a little letter to the people that they've wronged. Can't think of its name at the moment. At any rate, it works wonderfully. Gets kids to achnowledge their wrong doing and makes it unnecessary to suspend them. It's already being used in San Francisco and, I think, has recently begun to be used in Oakland.

    I don't know of any solution to the issue of making loans to underqualified applicants.
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    When the government gets involved, everything gets worse - welfare results in African American families breaking up in order to get benefits, the housing crisis caused by lending policies, schools becoming warehouses rather than learning institutions just so no one is left behind. Further dumbing down of America. We will all end up equally stupid and equally poor.
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    From 2012 and we now see it all in motion.

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