In his Oct. 23 Daily Journal guest perspective, “Race-baiting doesn’t work in San Mateo County,” Mr. Curry doesn’t name the guest perspective he is attacking. This is because if we were able to refer to it, we would not be able to locate any of the things he is accusing it of. The piece by “two women” is “Renters rights are civil rights,” by Anne Bellows and Lorena Melgarejo in the Oct. 16 edition of the Daily Journal. He accuses those authors of labeling all of SAMCAR’s membership racists. I have searched their piece for such a claim. It is nowhere to be found. The authors never even use the words “SAMCAR” or “Realtor.” They do, however, discuss the history of racism in housing, from segregation to redlining. Does he deny that history?
Mr. Curry’s piece is an instance of the reliance on “alternative facts.” Neither is this its only disconcertingly Trumpian feint. There is also its usage of the “I am rubber you are glue” strategy, accusing housing advocates of race-baiting when it is patently the other way around. SAMCAR’s political wing has a record of some of the most egregious race-baiting San Mateo has seen, having spearheaded a campaign in 2016 that had some supporters characterizing renters as lazy moochers, drug dealers and thugs.
If we are to be objective, we must acknowledge who has been waging a willfully divisive campaign in the attempt to shut down the conversation around housing. Let there be no false equivalency between the real-estate lobby and the residents working for fairer housing options.
There is no race issue in housing along the peninsula so don't bring it into the conversation. The response by many of us to the letter by the two ladies is that we feel they will use race as the factor in filing a lawsuit against our cities and county. They are socialized housing advocates and they are spreading misinformation about race and we are calling them out on it. Period, end of story.
Justin,. Your JA posts are lame at best. Your candidate(s) didn’t prevail because why? For many of the same reasons why Measure Q was defeated. Citizens don’t want more government intervention in their lives especially when the intervention is a smothering entity that negates their own hard work. And FYI, rent stablization are just fancy words for income redistribution where below market rates are forced upon a property owner in the form of a rent subsidy for the tenant.
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There is no race issue in housing along the peninsula so don't bring it into the conversation. The response by many of us to the letter by the two ladies is that we feel they will use race as the factor in filing a lawsuit against our cities and county. They are socialized housing advocates and they are spreading misinformation about race and we are calling them out on it. Period, end of story.
Justin,. Your JA posts are lame at best. Your candidate(s) didn’t prevail because why? For many of the same reasons why Measure Q was defeated. Citizens don’t want more government intervention in their lives especially when the intervention is a smothering entity that negates their own hard work. And FYI, rent stablization are just fancy words for income redistribution where below market rates are forced upon a property owner in the form of a rent subsidy for the tenant.
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