Ce ne sont pas les différences qui provoquent les conflits mais leur effacement. René Girard
Le FN pose les bonnes questions mais donne les mauvaises réponses. Laurent Fabius (Premier ministre socialiste, 1984)
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust! The Star-Spangled Banner (dernière ligne)
Ici c’est notre pays, notre terre, et notre style de vie et nous vous offrons l’opportunité de profiter de tout cela. Mais si vous en avez assez de vous plaindre, de vous en prendre à notre drapeau, notre engagement, nos croyances chrétiennes, ou notre style de vie, je vous encourage fortement à profiter d’une autre grande liberté américaine, « le droit de partir. » Barry Loudermilk
Les immigrants, non australiens, doivent s’adapter. À prendre ou à laisser, je suis fatigué que cette nation s’inquiète à savoir si nous offensons certains individus ou leur culture. Depuis les attaques terroristes à Bali, nous assistons à une montée de patriotisme chez la majorité des Australiens. John Howard (premier ministre australien, juillet 2005 ?)
Soirées bruyantes, féroces pitbulls, autoradios beuglantes, prostitution, trafic de drogue et racket à l’école…
Après les bobos qui tentent de transformer un quartier à leur image,… voici les défavorisés subventionnés par l’Etat!
Enième infirmation, pour les obsédés de la mixité sociale (généralement pour les autres!), de la théorie du “contact” qui veut que « plus de temps passé avec des gens issus d’autres milieux mène à plus de compréhension et d’harmonie entre les groupes »…
Et enième effet de l’éclatement de la bulle immobilière américaine …
Ces promoteurs ou propriétaires à la recherche de nouveaux locataires pour leurs logements vides et de la garantie des subventions publiques …
Et ces familles défavorisées (principalement noires) cherchant, avec l’aide des subventions fédérales, à échapper aux quartiers en voie de ghettoïsation mais qui ont du mal à s’adapter aux normes de leurs nouveaux quartiers résidentiels à majorité blanche …
Et le conflit inévitable, les demandes d’éviction, les procès, les chercheurs qui refusent de voir la réalité.
Y compris au niveau mondial, avec les flux d’immigration de pays à pays, comme en témoignent ces tribunes libres qui circulent actuellement sur la Toile …
Ainsi, celle-ci, reçue d’un ami hier et attribuée à l’ancien premier ministre australien John Howard suite aux attaques terroristes de juillet 2005 à Londres mais en réalité écrite, si l’on en croit les sites chasseurs de rumeurs Snopes ou Hoax slayer, au lendemain du 11 septembre par un ancien officier de l’Armée de l’air américaine pour son journal local de Géorgie.
Et qui a depuis fait le tour de la terre, tant elle exprime bien, attentats terroristes aidant, la lassitude de nombre d’Occidentaux devant à la fois les dérives du politiquement correct et les exigences manifestement démesurées de certains groupes fondamentalistes ou néoconvertis musulmans …
Influx of black renters raises tension in Bay Area
Paul Elias
Associated press
Dec 30, 2008
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) – 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. »
Voir aussi:
HELLO! THIS IS AMERICA!
Barry Loudermilk
The Bartow Trader
September 2001 ?
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma School officials remove « God Bless America » signs from schools in fear that someone might be offended.
Channel 12 News in Long Island, New York, orders flags removed from the newsroom and red, white, and blue ribbons removed from the lapels of reporters. Why? Management did not want to appear biased and felt that our nations flag might give the appearance that « they lean one way or another »
Berkeley, California bans US Flags from being displayed on city fire trucks because they didn’t want to offend anyone in the community.
In an « act of tolerance, » the head of the public library at Florida Gulf Coast University ordered all « Proud to be an American » signs removed so as to not offend international students.
I, for one, am quite disturbed by these actions of so-called American citizens; and I am tired of this nation worrying about whether or not we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled in New York and Washington D.C. when the « politically correct » crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others.
I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to America. In fact, our country’s population is almost entirely composed of descendants of immigrants; however, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some native Americans, need to understand.
First of all, it is not our responsibility to continually try not to offend you in any way. This idea of America being a multi-cultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Americans, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture, called the « American Way » has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. Our forefathers fought, bled, and died at places such as Bunker Hill, Antietam, San Juan, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, for our way of life.
We speak English, not Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society — learn our language!
« In God We Trust » is our national motto. This is not some off-the-wall, Christian, Right Wing, political slogan — it is our national motto. It is engraved in stone in the House of Representatives in our Capitol and it is printed on our currency. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation; and this is clearly documented throughout our history. If it is appropriate for our motto to be inscribed in the halls of our highest level of Government, then it is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.
God is in our pledge, our National Anthem, nearly every patriotic song, and in our founding documents. We honor His birth, death, and resurrection as holidays, and we turn to Him in prayer in times of crisis. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture and we are proud to have Him.
We are proud of our heritage and those who have so honorably defended our freedoms. We celebrate Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Flag Day. We have parades, picnics, and barbecues where we proudly wave our flag. As an American, I have the right to wave my flag, sing my national anthem, quote my national motto, and cite my pledge whenever and wherever I choose. If the Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don’t like Uncle Sam, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.
The American culture is our way of life, our heritage, and we are proud of it. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don’t care how you did things where you came from. We are Americans, like it or not, this is our country, our land, and our lifestyle.
Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion about our government, culture, or society, and we will allow you every opportunity to do so. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our national motto, or our way of life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great American freedom, the right to leave.
jcdurbant 