What if Obama uses his HUD racial database to impose a "Rooney Rule" on housing sales and rentals?

You've heard of the Rooney Rule, right? It's an NFL regulation which requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for every open head coach and front office job.

Because in the meritocracy of pro football, tokenism counts.

So, after posting yesterday about Obama's secret town by town, block by block racial database I got to thinking about how he'll use it. And I thought, "Rooney Rule."

Imagine having to prove you tried to sell your house or rent your vacant apartment to at least one black person just to satisfy Obama's racial bean counters.

It's not as far-fetched an idea as you might want to believe.

Banks and mortgage companies already are required to amass volumes of statistics on the racial makeup of their loan portfolios, and they're in danger of being sued by the feds for not approving "enough" loans for low-income and minority borrowers. Welcome to the bizarro world of "disparate impact" litigation.

So why not another HUD form at closing to document how many minority buyers put in an offer on your house? Complete with a section for you to explain why you chose not to sell it to them, of course.

And no, price won't be a valid reason.

We've already seen how affirmative action requires colleges to allow lower SAT scores for minority applicants. So why wouldn't the Obamaunist social justice warriors demand that you accept a lower price for your house in order to fulfill their utopian goal of racial balance in housing?

Ditto for apartment rents. I can see Obama using his database to define below market rents that would only be available to minority tenants. Meanwhile, white guys, if you're even allowed to rent to them, still pay full price. You know, to make up for past discrimination, or slavery.

Because nothing can stand in the way of giving Obama's sycophants the right to live wherever they desire, regardless of their ability to pay. It's all part and parcel of the Equality Of Outcome worldview. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Posted at 15:01 by Chris Wysocki   [/obama_watch]   Comments | Perm Link |
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