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Is this really your view on Measure L, Davis Enterprise?

Davis enterpriseIs this really your view on Measure L, Davis Enterprise?  Because I'm having trouble believing the words in front of my eyes. 

Did you really write, "If WDAAC gets built and all the white Davis seniors move into it, then it will give more opportunity for minorities from out of town to move into the single-family houses the seniors vacate"?

In other words, it would be OK if WDAAC were composed completely of white Davis seniors?  And the reason it would be OK is that nonwhite individuals would have the "opportunity" to move into the vacated houses formerly occupied by white individuals – even if the nonwhite individuals didn't have the opportunity to move into WDAAC itself?  Just the bare possibility that "minorities" could move into Davis would be enough to justify an exclusionary program?

You really think that would be OK?

And then people wonder if Davis really has a race problem.

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7 responses to “Is this really your view on Measure L, Davis Enterprise?”

  1. Sarah Perrault

    I am appalled.

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  2. Roberta L. Millstein

    This feels like a new low.

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  3. Todd Edelman

    If this example of an alternate Universe where the City of Davis has horrendous energy, mobility and social policy is built, it will be disproportionately White, and most houses in town available due to downsizing will have buyers who are disproportionately White, since that housing will be very expensive.
    WDAAC = White Davis American-style Apartheid Clusterf*ck.

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  4. Pam Gunnell

    Where was the editor on this day? Unbelievable.

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  5. Roberta L. Millstein

    Pam, I keep asking myself how anyone could read that sentence and think it’s OK. I come up blank.

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  6. M. Draffan

    After attending an information meeting on the WDAAC project I was very impressed with the housing types and commitment to environmental concerns. Rather than try to cancel the whole deal, how about working on changing the (large and important) detail about excluding people with no Davis ties.

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  7. Roberta L. Millstein

    M. Draffen, I am not “trying to cancel the whole deal.” I’m simply expressing outrage at the Enterprise’s attitude, which, ironically, embodies the very racism that they are saying the project lacks.

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