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Hey, who’s bitter, clingy, and racist now?

By Michelle Malkin • December 31, 2008 01:24 PM

You all remember that Barack Obama made his famous comments about bitter, clingy, racist rural Americans at a posh fund-raiser in the Bay Area — America’s role model of tolerance and understanding.

Well, look who’s bitter, clingy, and racist now (hat tip – JWF):

As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.

Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.

“A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live,” said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who came here five years ago from a blighted neighborhood in nearby Pittsburg. “We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don’t want us here.”
City officials deny the allegations in the lawsuits, which were filed last spring and seek unspecified damages.

Across the country, similar tensions have simmered when federally subsidized renters escaped run-down housing projects and violent neighborhoods by moving to nicer communities in suburban Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles.

But the friction in Antioch is “hotter than elsewhere,” said U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development spokesman Larry Bush.

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#581180

On January 1st, 2009 at 11:20 pm, jwm said:

I lived in Antioch from 1982 to 1988 and the changes I saw included:
1. huge amounts of development encouraged by a greedy city council that wanted the tax and sales tax recvenue.
2. a failure to use those funds to improve infrastucture.
3. the implementation of a special fee/tax to circumvent prop 13.
4. as the market heated up, there was more development and people bought overpriced houses
5. as the market slowed, the city council agreed to allowing section 8 housing
6. huge increases in crime
7. as the market for housing crashed, people wanting to sell are unable to and are stuck living near gangsters
The politicians and the developers in their greed caused this crisis to happen.
#581215

On January 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 am, frontierguy said:

Dagney…

We’ve known those on the left were the racists, which is why after 20 years as a senator voting against civil rights, it was poetic justice that public insistence on it made LBJ sign it into law. Of course, his creation of ADC was what broke up the black family, and as he said, “will tie the blacks to us for the next 50 years”…except “blacks” was not the word he used. On that score, he was correct.

There is a great book written by secret service members chronicalling the personal lives of the presidents and their families from LBJ to Clinton. Yeah, it read that LBJ signed the civil rights act on air force one and he said this will keep the n*** voting democrat for the next 100 years. It also mentions that LBJ liked to fly on air force one in the nude, earning him the nickname bull nuts from the secret service. It is a great read, sorry I don’t know the title, but I bet you could find it.
#581354

On January 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 am, BKennedy said:

As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.

I agree with the African Americans. The homosexuals should get their fix elsewhere.