{"id":2287,"date":"2012-09-28T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2012-09-28T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T13:25:27","slug":"regional-equity-obamas-coming-war-on-whitopias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"‘Regional Equity’ – Obama\u2019s coming war on whitopias"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by J<\/a>esse Mossman<\/p>\n

Paul Kersey<\/a> recently reported on VDARE.com<\/a> an emerging trend: for white suburbs to secede from larger urban jurisdictions and so form, in effect, whitopian<\/a> enclaves.<\/p>\n

But he did not mention that there are powerful forces on the other side pushing back hard\u2014using a concept called \u201cRegional Equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Americans can be forgiven for not being familiar with Regional Equity. I had not heard the term myself until just a few weeks ago, when I caught Stanley Kurtz<\/a> on the radio talking about his new book: Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Put Regional Equity<\/a> into a search engine and the language of the collectivists<\/a> surfaces: transportation equity, environmental equity, healthcare equity<\/a>, social justice<\/a>, smart growth, and especially, sustainable communities.<\/a><\/p>\n

The essence of Regional Equity is the use of centralized political power make things equal over regions\u2014disregarding jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

President Obama<\/a> is very much on board with the Regional Equity movement. The White House website \u00a0says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Obama will also take a regional approach that disregards traditional jurisdictional boundaries <\/em>[my emphasis\u2014JM], setting policy that takes into account how cities, suburbs, and exurbs interact. President Obama\u2019s urban policy agenda will use this integrated approach to enhance economic competitiveness, sustainability, and equity in our cities and metropolitan areas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Furthermore, PolicyLink (a pro-minority think tank run by a woman graduate of Howard university who describes herself<\/a> as \u201cnational leader for social justice and equity\u201d) <\/em>\u00a0states:<\/p>\n

Under the Obama administration, a framework of regional equity has been a driving force behind the larger federal partnership for Sustainable Communities made up of HUD, the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The partnership has now issued a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for a new Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program (SCRPG) that will formalize as federal policy the very strategies that equity advocates have been seeking to advance at the community level for years. [The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Guide | How to Link Equity to Each Rating Factor<\/em> PDF<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the past, secession<\/a> could work\u2014boundaries meant independence from the predatory desires of larger neighbors hungry for the resources and lifestyles<\/a> of more prosperous suburbs.<\/a><\/p>\n

But now, like a Black Hole<\/a> whose irresistible gravity swallows nearby stars, central cities, the doctrine of Regional Equity could suck the cash from prosperous suburban cities, impose onerous laws, and even force them to become more diverse<\/a>\u2014negating the very reasons for moving<\/a> to these former enclaves of sanity and safety.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this article on Vdare.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jesse Mossman Paul Kersey recently reported on VDARE.com an emerging trend: for white suburbs to secede from larger urban jurisdictions and so form, in effect, whitopian enclaves. But he did not mention that there are powerful forces on the other side pushing back hard\u2014using a concept called \u201cRegional Equity.\u201d Americans can be forgiven for … Continue reading “‘Regional Equity’ – Obama\u2019s coming war on whitopias”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[90,65,1475,12251,1474,1473],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-obama","tag-race","tag-regional-equity","tag-united-states","tag-white-flight","tag-whitopia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/whitefamily.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}