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Integration in Housing Source: Shockley, William B. "Integration in Housing." The Citizen. 17.2 (Nov 1972) Today, under the Nixon Administration, the Housing and Urban development Department is buying or leasing huge apartment projects and filling them with racially-mixed occupants from the slums. In this way, the Nixon Administration not only is carrying out the Republican Platform pledge of 1960 and 1964 to bring about racial integration in all phases of American life, but also is forcing an integration of all economic levels of our society. One of the aims of the Housing and Urban Development Department is to place low-income families in middle and upper-income neighborhoods, so that all may share each other's cultural and social values. The taxpayer loses two ways: Not only does he pay for housing the families on welfare, but he also has to watch helplessly while the value of his own home goes down. Many Americans who are still struggling to pay off the mortgages of modest, little $15,000 to $17,000 homes are being taxed today so that the government can pay all but one per cent of the interest on loans for modern, new, air conditioned 100-per cent financed houses costing up to $21,000 for families on welfare. Some of these homes even have intercom Systems which take AM and FM music to every room. These welfare clients are not going to live in just any, modern new houses financed by the taxpayers. They've got to have music, too! So the more enterprising builders are advertising intercom systems to attract home-buyers from the welfare rolls, even though this added luxury is not approved by the FHA. As long as we elect congressmen and senators and governors and presidents who believe we should pay workers not to work and farmers not to farm; as long as we permit our government to grant tax exemptions for a privileged few, and as long as we allow big, private foundations to use their tax- free millions to mold the thinking of our young people - then so long must we be willing to see ourselves enslaved, so long must we deprive ourselves and our children of the fruits of our labor, so long will we bring comfort to those in our society who refuse to work. Think about this, fellow citizens, the next time you stand in line at the supermarket while the woman ahead of you uses food stamps to pay for enough groceries to load the back seat and trunk of her Cadillac.
Shockley CCA Nov 1972 p. 22 Shockley's Teachings Barred PALO ALTO, Calif. Dr. William Shockley, a Nobel laureate whose views on race made him controversial, was notified he would not be allowed to offer a special course for Stanford University graduate students on his theories about inheritance of intelligence. Professor Shockley issued a short statement that made use of one of his phrases,flat human quality illusion, by which he means that the theory that all mankind has certain equal qualities is an illusion.The flat human quality illusion that thwarts objectivity is, in my opinion, far more threatening to the future of the United States than was the flat earth illusion to the future of Italy in Galileo's day, he said. The sort of statement that has made him controversial is this, drawn from his article in Phi Delta Kappan: If, as many thinking citizens fear, our welfare programs are unwittingly, but with the noblest of intentions, selectively downbreeding the poor of our slums by encouraging their least foresighted to be most prolific, the consequences will be tragic for both blacks and whites -- but proportionately so much worse for our black minority that ... the consequence may be a form of genetic enslavement that will Provoke extremes of racism with agony for all citizens. |
