Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area

That wonderful bastion of liberalism is one of the most racist places on the planet. Those 'darkies' should stay in Oakland if they know what is good for them.

And liberal idealism fails yet again.

why, oh why didn't we just pick our own damn cotton?

Maybe they should start understanding that they are the problem. They want to move to a better place but they bring their problems with them. Their kids are out of control and anywhere they go they destroy the new places they move to. They don't give a rat's ass about conforming to the new area they move too. They have no regard for their neighbors who want peace and quiet. They are ghetto to the core and you cannot polish a turd.

best one liner today!

they should just stay in oakland and east palo alto where they belong.

they should just stay in oakland and east palo alto where they belong.

Get used to it. Blacks are everywhere and you are just not use to them yet. Wait till the mexicans move in then you will hav a reason to complain. Even the blacks cannot stand the maxicans.LOL

lol if only ..... and while we're at it why didn't the romans stay where they were .... and don't get me started on the Bolsheviks .....

White people feel threatened by everything these days. A teacup chihuahua becomes a "mean pit bull" when a black person owns it.

Idiot

Things white people feel safe around:

1.) Mayonnaise

2.) Bologna

3.) Hannah Montana

4.) organic shit

5.) other white people

6.) "sanitized" ethnic minorities

7.) parties that involve shrimp and white wine

8.) Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits

Yes, you are.

You can take a nigga out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of a nigga.

That right there is the problem with liberal thinking. They believe when you move em out they will change for the better. Unfortunately it is not the case.

The only ghetto nigga's that change are the ones who do it for themselves by getting an education and bettering themselves.

federally subsidized housing

need we say more?

Amen to that!
Our own sin (slavery) is responsible for the problem, and now we reap the consequences of that sin.

Same problem with illegals: The sin of Greed (cheap labor) has brought millions of illegals into our country. And now we pay the price with the squalor of their neighborhoods, their immorality (raping, pillaging, etc.), and their taking over of our very language and culture.


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You make better places to live.. you don't find them.

You can't get a education ... you can only learn.

...and some other place is getting gentrified. It's a cycle. The only way to break it is for the government to stop giving people money unless they really can't earn money on their own.

why did you feel you had to quote the whole long assed post?

whats the point?

Did I upset the GLP English teacher?

Same fascist who own the corporation today owned it then. They brought them here with the help of King George.

The shitty economy has destroyed the work force so the crime rate goes up. So, what happens? Gotta blame it on the brown people!

Yeah, fuck them!

I concur, as well as most not all but MOST don't work, care to work , be careful for what they have ( all paid for by the taxpayer) make crappy neighbors, and are porch monkeys.

sorry meant grateful for what they are given

Okay, that was funny, bad taste, but funny.

[link to news.yahoo.com]


ANTIOCH, Calif. – 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.

An increasing number of poor families receiving federal rental assistance have been moving here in recent years, partly because of the housing crisis.

A growing number of landlords were seeking a guaranteed source of revenue in a city hard-hit by foreclosures. They began offering their Antioch homes to low-income tenants in the HUD Section 8 housing program, which pays about two-thirds of every tenant's rent.

Between 2000 and 2007, Antioch's black population nearly doubled from 8,824 to 16,316. And the number of Antioch renters receiving federal subsidies climbed almost 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 to 1,582, the majority of them black.

Longtime homeowners complained that the new arrivals brought crime and other troubles. In 2006, violent crime in Antioch shot up about 19 percent from the year before, while property crime went down slightly.

"In some neighborhoods, it was complete madness," said longtime resident David Gilbert, a black retiree who organized the United Citizens of Better Neighborhoods watch group. "They were under siege."

So the Antioch police in mid-2006 created the Community Action Team, which focused on complaints of trouble at low-income renters' homes.

Police sent 315 complaints about subsidized tenants to the Contra Costa Housing Authority, which manages the federal program in the city, and urged the agency to evict many of them for lease violations such as drug use or gun possession. Lawyers for the tenants said 70 percent of the eviction recommendations were aimed at black renters. The housing authority turned down most of the requests.

Coleman said the police, after a complaint from a neighbor, showed up at her house one morning in 2007 to check on her husband, who was on parole for drunken driving. She said they searched the house and returned twice more that summer to try to find out whether the couple had violated any terms of their lease that could lead to eviction.

The Colemans were also slapped with a restraining order after a neighbor accused them of "continually harassing and threatening their family," according to court papers. The Colemans said a judge later rescinded the order.

Coleman and four other families are suing Antioch, accusing police of engaging in racial discrimination and conducting illegal searches without warrants. They have asked a federal judge to make their suit a class-action on behalf of hundreds of other black renters. Another family has filed a lawsuit accusing the city's leaders of waging a campaign of harassment to drive them out.

Police referred questions to the city attorney's office.

City Attorney Lynn Tracy Nerland denied any discrimination on the part of police and said officers were responding to crime reports in troubled neighborhoods when they discovered that a large number of the troublemakers were receiving federal subsidies.

"They are responding to real problems," Nerland said.

Joseph Villarreal, the housing authority chief, said the problems in Antioch mirror tensions seen nationally when poor renters move into neighborhoods they can afford only with government help.

"One of the goals of the programs is to de-concentrate poverty," Villarreal said. "There are just some people who don't want to spend public money that way."

Tensions like those afflicting Antioch have drawn scholars and law enforcement officials to debate whether crime follows subsidized renters out of the tenements to the suburbs.

Susan Popkin, a researcher at the nonprofit Urban Institute, said she does not believe that is the case. But the tensions, she said, are real.

"That can be a recipe for anxiety," she said. "It can really change the demographics of a neighborhood."
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Oh my God! First the fags, now the bye byes. What is the world coming to? Ignorant cumstain.

You have officially reset the bar for