President Obama's Secret Race Database

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**Breotan**

New York Post has this story that the President is collecting all sorts of demographic data, breaking it all down based on race.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/obama-has-been-collecting-personal-data-for-a-secret-race-database/

Paul Sperry wrote:Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database

A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.

This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.

Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online.

So civil-rights attorneys and urban activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “racial disparities” and “segregation,” even if no other evidence of discrimination exists.

Housing database

The granddaddy of them all is the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled out earlier this month to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code. It will map every US neighborhood by four racial groups — white, Asian, black or African-American, and Hispanic/Latino — and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances.

The agency proposes using nonwhite populations of 50% or higher as the threshold for classifying segregated areas.

Federally funded cities deemed overly segregated will be pressured to change their zoning laws to allow construction of more subsidized housing in affluent areas in the suburbs, and relocate inner-city minorities to those predominantly white areas. HUD’s maps, which use dots to show the racial distribution or density in residential areas, will be used to select affordable-housing sites.

HUD plans to drill down to an even more granular level, detailing the proximity of black residents to transportation sites, good schools, parks and even supermarkets. If the agency’s social engineers rule the distance between blacks and these suburban “amenities” is too far, municipalities must find ways to close the gap or forfeit federal grant money and face possible lawsuits for housing discrimination.

Civil-rights groups will have access to the agency’s sophisticated mapping software, and will participate in city plans to re-engineer neighborhoods under new community outreach requirements.

“By opening this data to everybody, everyone in a community can weigh in,” Obama said. “If you want affordable housing nearby, now you’ll have the data you need to make your case.”

Mortgage database

Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, headed by former Congressional Black Caucus leader Mel Watt, is building its own database for racially balancing home loans. The so-called National Mortgage Database Project will compile 16 years of lending data, broken down by race, and hold everything from individual credit scores and employment records.

Mortgage contracts won’t be the only financial records vacuumed up by the database. According to federal documents, the repository will include “all credit lines,” from credit cards to student loans to car loans — anything reported to credit bureaus. This is even more information than the IRS collects.

The FHFA will also pry into your personal assets and debts and whether you have any bankruptcies. The agency even wants to know the square footage and lot size of your home, as well as your interest rate.

FHFA will share the info with Obama’s brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which acts more like a civil-rights agency, aggressively investigating lenders for racial bias.

The FHFA has offered no clear explanation as to why the government wants to sweep up so much sensitive information on Americans, other than stating it’s for “research” and “policymaking.”

However, CFPB Director Richard Cordray was more forthcoming, explaining in a recent talk to the radical California-based Greenlining Institute: “We will be better able to identify possible discriminatory lending patterns.”

Credit database

CFPB is separately amassing a database to monitor ordinary citizens’ credit-card transactions. It hopes to vacuum up some 900 million credit-card accounts — all sorted by race — representing roughly 85% of the US credit-card market. Why? To sniff out “disparities” in interest rates, charge-offs and collections.

Employment database

CFPB also just finalized a rule requiring all regulated banks to report data on minority hiring to an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion. It will collect reams of employment data, broken down by race, to police diversity on Wall Street as part of yet another fishing expedition.

School database

Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.

Those that don’t comply will be punished. Several already have been forced to revise their discipline policies, which has led to violent disruptions in classrooms.

Obama’s educrats want to know how many blacks versus whites are enrolled in gifted-and-talented and advanced placement classes.

Schools that show blacks and Latinos under-enrolled in such curricula, to an undefined “statistically significant degree,” could open themselves up to investigation and lawsuits by the department’s Civil Rights Office.

Count on a flood of private lawsuits to piggyback federal discrimination claims, as civil-rights lawyers use the new federal discipline data in their legal strategies against the supposedly racist US school system.

Even if no one has complained about discrimination, even if there is no other evidence of racism, the numbers themselves will “prove” that things are unfair.

Such databases have never before existed. Obama is presiding over the largest consolidation of personal data in US history. He is creating a diversity police state where government race cops and civil-rights lawyers will micromanage demographic outcomes in virtually every aspect of society.

The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-reparations infrastructure perpetually fed by racial data that will outlast his administration.

**Vitali Advenil**

I'm not entirely convinced this is an issue of privacy, at least not all of it. This only seems to be collecting statistical data from schools and banks, and only those that are federally regulated. As such, the government does have the right to impose various restrictions on those organizations. Calling this "Orwellian" seems biased on the part of the article.

Second, collecting racial data based on location is something the census is already supposed to do, and the US census is mandatory, so the argument that this is an issue of privacy, again, seems slanted. Also, coming from Atlanta, which is pretty segregated in certain areas, this data could actually be extremely useful. The main reason public transportation is so terrible in Atlanta is because a lot of the WASPs are afraid minorities will take said transport to affluent neighborhoods to commit crime, and as such, they petition against it. This data could be an excellent way to open the gate to better public transportation in Atlanta, and less segregation in city districts.

I will admit the credit card database does seem like an intrusion of privacy. Without a warrant, the government has no right to know what I'm purchasing. They should instead be monitoring the bank that issues the card, not the individual's purchases. And if the card is being issued by a private organization, the government would again need a warrant or audit to get that data. I'd rather keep my purchase history of exorbitantly priced miniatures to myself, thank you very much.

**Dropbear Victim**

Am I understanding it correct in that they are going to start prosecuting random banks and schools etc for not meeting race quotas? So they'll claim moral superiority while doing absolutely nothing to address the problems, all while making a buck off fines too?

**Jimsolo**

No. From what I can understand, this will just be a tool, to potentially show where laws or systems which should be affecting everyone equally are in fact affecting people very unequally.

It seems like this will be of most use in civil court, where people might finally have some statistical data to show that discrimination may exist (intentionally or otherwise), rather than just anecdotal evidence on both sides.

I'm often very skeptical about the government's ability to accomplish complicated tasks. However, sitting quietly in a room, counting numbers and then publishing them online to be used as a resource for smaller courts? Seems like the perfect use of federal time.

**Breotan**

Jimsolo wrote:
However, sitting quietly in a room, counting numbers and then publishing them online to be used as a resource for smaller courts?

Or given to special interest/advocacy groups.

**Co'tor Shas**

Sooo...?

**Breotan**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Sooo...?

Would you be so dismissive were it a Republican President making such a database (or any database) to give to right-wing special interest/advocacy groups like the NRA or Focus on the Family? Or legal groups working to defeat left-wing policies in the US?

**d-usa**

Breotan wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Sooo...?
Would you be so dismissive were it a Republican President making such a database (or any database) to give to right-wing special interest/advocacy groups like the NRA or Focus on the Family? Or legal groups working to defeat left-wing policies in the US?

It's called the census. Collects all kind of data which is all available to the public via simple to use online databases. I used them when I did research in my public health projects and epidemiology projects.

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Edit: and not just race. I can figure out what kind of education people in my neighborhood have, their income, family size. Whenever I get up in the morning I can simply log on and decide what kind of warfare (class/race/income) I want to wage whenever I go on Tumblr that day.

**Scrabb**

Someday President Obama will actually do something nefarious and no one will care.

"The Republicans that cried wolf." as it were.

**FacebookJunkie**

Racism is much more than shootings in a church.

It is also includes a pervasive reduction in access to credit, education, healthcare, employment, housing etc etc.

Unless one is able to measure and show statistically that discrimination is taking place, it is very difficult to put in place policies to redress discrimination.

IMHO this article is on that spectrum of opinion that has Obama down as some sort of 'Other' at war with 'True' America. And it is utter tosh.

**Crystal-Maze**

Oh no, America might become slightly more conscious of its terrible relationship with race.

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Describing data collection which takes a view to highlighting descrimination on the grounds of race as 'Orwellian' is the bit that disturbs me here.

**Swastakowey**

I thought the reason minorities are poor is because of the poverty cycle? They are more likely to rake up debt they cannot afford, drop out of school and usually spend most of their money on useless things. This is not just something I see in minorities here nor is it the norm for all (usually asians are very wealthy here for example) but in all poor people I know.

My friend for example, earns not much less than I do but despite me telling him not too he spends his money every week, then complains he cannot afford things.

While this may not be the case for all poor people usually I think those who feel like they suffer can, with few changes in their life, really improve their financial position and oppression seems to pay no part in it except what they tell themselves.

Students for example, tend to complain about how much education costs and the cost to live in cities for university. But then you see them flock to bars, clubs and cafes and spend their money stupidly. Much of their issues with money could be made much easier if they simply used their brains.

Unless I am wrong, I feel like many people are a product of their decisions rather than societal oppression. While I don't live in the USA I have a feeling many of the people who are poor are poor through poor money habits.

In my opinion the solution is to teach kids at school how to manage money and make the most of it. Try and counter them learning from their parents on bad money habits.

**Crystal-Maze**

Swastakowey wrote:
I thought the reason minorities are poor is because of the poverty cycle? They are more likely to rake up debt they cannot afford, drop out of school and usually spend most of their money on useless things. This is not just something I see in minorities here nor is it the norm for all (usually asians are very wealthy here for example) but in all poor people I know.

My friend for example, earns not much less than I do but despite me telling him not too he spends his money every week, then complains he cannot afford things.

While this may not be the case for all poor people usually I think those who feel like they suffer can, with few changes in their life, really improve their financial position and oppression seems to pay no part in it except what they tell themselves.

Students for example, tend to complain about how much education costs and the cost to live in cities for university. But then you see them flock to bars, clubs and cafes and spend their money stupidly. Much of their issues with money could be made much easier if they simply used their brains.

Unless I am wrong, I feel like many people are a product of their decisions rather than societal oppression. While I don't live in the USA I have a feeling many of the people who are poor are poor through poor money habits.

In my opinion the solution is to teach kids at school how to manage money and make the most of it. Try and counter them learning from their parents on bad money habits.

A somewhat superficial analysis of the situation, but a common one because it places most of the blame on the individual. The idea of data gathering like that which is talked about in the OP is to expose any potential hidden mechanisms by which societal systems might might create poverty traps.

Anecdotally, I lived in council housing in England right up until I went to university, and I didn't see any of the frivolous spending which people are quick to charge the poor with.

**AndrewGPaul**

See the "Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness".

In Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett wrote:The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This applies to plenty of things - poor people can't get access to good credit, so they are forced to rely on things like payday loans. Or have to have prepayment meters for electricity, which often charge a much higher rate than ordinary billing methods. Or being forced out of city centres by rising property values and rents, and then having to spend a large proportion of their income on transportation

Moving the goalposts somewhat, really rich people pay hardly any tax because they can afford to hire accountants to look for the loopholes; something the vast majority can't afford, so we end up paying 20% or more in income tax.

**lord_blackfang**

So what is the problem here, exactly? That evidence of discrimination is being collected and acted upon?

**Ouze**

In President Obama's defense, he really needs this information to properly deploy his Jade Helm 15 UN troops on their mission of taking guns away from Republicans and condemning them to FEMA camps where they will be converted them to Allah, and their children given to gay couples.

You have no idea how much background data it takes just to know how much chemtrails to buy, let alone where to spray it.

**CptJake**

There are a few issues.

School database

Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.

This will very likely end up with kids not being punished when they should be (we see it already). That leaves real discipline problems and detracts from the education kids get.

Federally funded cities deemed overly segregated will be pressured to change their zoning laws to allow construction of more subsidized housing in affluent areas in the suburbs, and relocate inner-city minorities to those predominantly white areas. HUD’s maps, which use dots to show the racial distribution or density in residential areas, will be used to select affordable-housing sites.

Forcing the building of subsidized housing in reasonably affluent areas is going to have a big effect on property values. When your suddenly underwater on your mortgage or the equity in your home turns to gak that has major consequences. I really don't find anything 'fair' in that.

'Relocating' people is generally not a good idea. The relocation of Katrina victims to Houston is a good example of what you get. Add in the lack of corresponding plan to handle the depopulated areas and you end up with more wastelands like you see in some parts of Detroit.

And finally, where do the funds for the data collection and analysis come from? Is that REALLY an effective use of scarce tax dollars at this point?

**d-usa**

I think recent illuminati studies have demonstrated a racial component when it comes to metabolizing chem trails, so you really need that info so that you can adjust the composition of the mix you are using.

**Ahtman**

President Obama's Secret Potato Salad Recipe

A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be his unprecedented collection of recipes for Americans. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “deliciousness.”

Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s chef's are furiously mining data on new dishes, recipes, snacks, restaurants, greasy spoons, even how their kids are fed in school — all to document “deliciousness” between minorities and whites.

This Childs-style recipes includes a vast and permanent network of ingredients, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” on: schools not giving enough potato salad to minorities; schools that suspend too many cooks; cities that don’t offer enough side dishes and other foods for anyone; and employers who turn down lunch to save time.

Big Brother Barack wants the salad recipe operational before he leaves office, and much of the ingredients will be posted online.

So civil-rights attorneys and foodie activist groups will be able to exploit them to show patterns of “stove top vs mashed potatoes” and “eat yer greens,” even if no other evidence of broccoli discrimination exists.

The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-food infrastructure perpetually fed by yummy data that will outlast his administration.

**Ustrello**

He better not steal my recipe for french fried potaters mmmmmhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm

**Co'tor Shas**

Breotan wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Sooo...?
Would you be so dismissive were it a Republican President making such a database (or any database) to give to right-wing special interest/advocacy groups like the NRA or Focus on the Family? Or legal groups working to defeat left-wing policies in the US?

Yes, it's called politics.

**BeAfraid**

OMG! This is from a Conservative Tabloid!

That should be enough to show that there is no more to the shrill hyperbole than there was to the recent Planned Parenthood video.

It's just another "rousing the rabble" story for the conservative base to rattle around in their empty heads.

MB

**FacebookJunkie**

Ouze wrote:
In President Obama's defense, he really needs this information to properly deploy his Jade Helm 15 UN troops on their mission of taking guns away from Republicans and condemning them to FEMA camps where they will be converted them to Allah, and their children given to gay couples.

You have no idea how much background data it takes just to know how much chemtrails to buy, let alone where to spray it.

**motyak**

I hope you aren't labeling one side of the political spectrums entire base as empty headed, that'd be pretty rude...

**whembly**

So that's how this administration will do this:
http://thehill.com/regulation/244620-obamas-bid-to-diversify-wealthy-neighborhoods

Hope they do Malibu or NYC first.

**Sinful Hero**

Does anyone else think that this will be quite useless in some areas? When they build government housing next to a wealthy neighborhood, they're just going to move. It's already happened in Memphis over the past several decades. The majority of the white working population lives in Mississippi and commutes.

See White Flight.

**BeAfraid**

Why am I not surprised that people do not understand Foundational Changes, or Structural Changes to address a problem, and instead focus only upon ephemeral, or sophomoric ideas regarding Structural and Foundational issues surrounding race, or economics?

MB

**Ouze**

whembly wrote:
So that's how this administration will do this:
http://thehill.com/regulation/244620-obamas-bid-to-diversify-wealthy-neighborhoods

A final Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule due out this month is aimed at ending decades of deep-rooted segregation around the country.

The regulations would use grant money as an incentive for communities to build affordable housing in more affluent areas while also taking steps to upgrade poorer areas with better schools, parks, libraries, grocery stores and transportation routes as part of a gentrification of those communities.

Truly, B. HUSSEIN Obama is history's greatest monster.

**SlaveToDorkness**

Wait...I thought gentrification was evil?

Or is that only when white people do it?

**Grey Templar**

SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Wait...I thought gentrification was evil?

Or is that only when white people do it?

Probably. Thats usually how it goes.