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Mapping Foreclosures in the New York Region

nytimes.com

13 pointsdangoldin8 comments

Even the nation's leading newspaper just couldn't resist to assign a non-white population percentage to every single block of the city on a freaking foreclosure map.

Ever since I moved to US I could never comprehend how the never ending war on racism, taken to absurd proportions sometimes, manages to conveniently co-exist with this consistent and all-reaching division of people by their skin color.

Seriously, non-whites on the foreclosure map? Why not percentage of baldies, or priests, or Harward graduates or one-legged piano thieves? But noooo, the public just has to know the percentage of non-whites in relation to everything.

It is standard divide and conquer identity politics.

The NYT could have conclusive proof the world would end on December 12th 2012, and the headline would be "Women and Minorities Will Have to Forgo Christmas, Hanukkah Celebrations"

I don't know... I find it sort of interesting that Central Park has a 13% non-white population...

Okay, let me clue you in.

The reason they separate blacks in this manner is to continue the long ritual of portraying them as victims. Okay? There's no conflict--It's consistent with their religious war against "racism". Believe me, any statistics that show blacks in a genuinely negative light (for instance, murder rates, burglary rates, rape rates, etc.) are rarely mentioned. When they are mentioned, they usually finesse it so it looks like whitey drove them to it.

For years, rags like the NYT bitched and moaned about banks not giving credit to minorities. So, the government forces banks to do just that. When the inevitable occurs, the same rags bitch and moan about an excess of foreclosures for the protected groups. Racism if you do, racism if you don't.

You are confusing the issues of 'redlining' black neighborhoods with the recent sub-prime mortgage failures. They are not related, obviously, and the confusion is dishonest, and most likely deliberate.

I'm here for news on hacking and entrepreneurship - not to be subjected to astroturfing by fringe groups.

Perhaps the authors could bring it back into the community theme with a note about hate entrepreneurship - green-themed sheet washing services, lo-carbon crossburnings and the like.

Indeed. How about economic indicators? Average income? Education data?

are they trying to say that foreclosures are more in non-white areas??? the stats in general says that new immigrant and non-white demographics has a higher savings ratio than average whites - the personal family debt is humongous amongst whites because of their buying habits of possessing everything big, big car, big house, big TVs, etc. ending up in BIG LOANS & MORTAGAGE!!!!!!!!!

i guess the non-white data is more of a help to non-whites than the so called real whites :)

But at best (from an Australian viewpoint) we can talk about correlation not causation. Why not give us the data on mean income in the area or pricing in the area or average debt levels or something tangible rather than an identity label from which we are meant to infer certain connotations.

Unless of course the implication is that bank managers are foreclosing with a racial bias (letting white people stay in debt longer).

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