"Racist" Zip Codes

Wendy McElroy
Jul. 28, 2014

A new type of social engineering is poised to descend on American communities: diversity mapping and the rectification of any racial inequities the mapping reveals.

The campaign is meant to stamp out “geospatial discrimination.” The term refers to the fact that affluent neighborhoods tend to be dominated by whites and Asians. What government calls “protected minorities,” especially blacks, are relatively absent from such communities. To the Obama administration, their absence constitutes prima facie evidence that such neighborhoods are discriminating against protected minorities by denying them equal access to safe communities and good schools. The social engineering aims at rectifying the alleged discrimination through the use of law, policy, and tax dollars. It is a form of affirmative action for neighborhoods, and its stated purpose is to raise minorities up into the middle class where they can share in the American dream.

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