Ready for another kick in the head brought to you by Hillary Clinton’s State Department?
Her shop sent a report to the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) that is made up of such freedom loving stalwarts as Cuba, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
I kid you not!
Having those countries on the HRC is like having Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung on the Commission for Non-Violence, if there is such a thing.
But, its gets better. The report claims America has a human rights problem because African Americans and Latinos have been discriminated against when it comes to owning or keeping a home.
The report says in part:
"The recession in the United States was fueled largely by a housing crisis, which coincided with some discriminatory lending practices." Those practices, the report strongly implies, resulted in a market where "fewer than half of African-American and Hispanic families own homes while three quarters of white families do."
As frequently is the case with Progressives like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, its enough just to make an accusation of perceived discrimination by using a racial demographic as proof of itself without ever examining how it came to be.
Jack Cashill wrote in his article for the American Thinker, Human Rights through the Looking Glass
“I wish I were making this up, but our official 2010 UPR submission to the United Nation argues that discrimination against minorities in the housing market somehow caused the economic crisis and that the misbegotten Dodd-Frank act will somehow repair it. It is no wonder that the authors of this report oppose capital punishment. Upon reading it, even Sister Helen Prejean would want them taken out and shot.
Cashill also writes:
“While the Obama apparatchiks were busy compiling this report, I was busy writing a book -- Popes and Bankers -- on the real causes of the economic crisis. What they see as the solution I see as the cause, and I can prove my point.
To make the accusation of discrimination work, the report writers had to ignore the most telling set of data, namely default rates.
In 2004, the Department of Housing and Urban Development did a comprehensive study of FHA loans that originated in 1992. The sample size was substantial -- nearly 250,000 loans.
Given that the FHA insures only modest loans for low- and moderate-income people, the cross-racial comparisons were for comparable properties. What the study revealed, among other results, was that after the seven prosperous years from 1992 to 1999, blacks were defaulting on their loans more than twice as frequently as whites, and Hispanics were defaulting three times more frequently.
Here is the crucial point: if minorities had been held to a higher standard than whites, their default rates should have been lower than whites, not higher.
These numbers suggest the opposite and the obvious: blacks and Hispanics were held to lower standards and have been for at least the last forty years.
Chinese-Americans, by the way, actually did have lower default rates than whites.
As to why black homeownership rates are lower, only the willfully blind can fail to see the problem: namely, the government-induced collapse of the two-parent black family.
In 1993, the average income for households headed by divorced women was 40 percent that of married couples; for unmarried women, it was only 20 percent.
As the numbers suggest, many of these women could not manage homes of their own.
Homeownership rates for female-headed households have struggled to stay above 50 percent. For married couples, by contrast, the rates have hovered consistently in the 80th-percentile range.
With blacks vastly overrepresented among single-parent families -- by 1993, 57 percent of black children were growing up in a single-parent household, as compared 21 percent of white children -- white homeownership rates inevitably outstripped those for black homeownership.
By the early 1990s that gap was at least 25 percentage points, around 70 percent for whites and in the low 40s for blacks.
The writers of the UPR report, however, refuse to acknowledge family breakdown as a problem, let alone as an explanation for the disparity in homeownership rates. Their preferred explanation for every unequal outcome in every endeavor is the inevitable "discrimination."
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There’s no such thing as cause and effect with Liberals. For them pulling the race card always suffices and sober examination is left to others
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