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The 17th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
Dr. Ben Carson.
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President Trump鈥檚 Secretary of Housing,
Ben Carson, is being sued by civil rights
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advocates for what they see as his failure
to enforce the Fair Housing Act, a landmark
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law that turned 50 years old this year.
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Ending housing discrimination was a key demand
of activists like Martin Luther King Jr. who,
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in 1966, brought his protest movement north
to Chicago, one of the most segregated cities
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in America.
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Take a bath the next time before you come
here!
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Back to the jungle you guys!
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Back to the jungle!
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I have never seen, even in Mississippi and
Alabama, mobs as hostile and as hate-filled
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as I have seen in Chicago.
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Congress had banned discrimination in employment
in 1964, and in voting in 1965.
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But when it came to housing, there was resistance,
even though government policies helped create
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segregated neighborhoods in the first place.
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Senator Walter Mondale held hearings on housing
discrimination.
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As a young senator, no one else would touch
it.
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They were afraid of it; so I took it.
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We had a witness who was really powerful there.
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He was a young, handsome, black naval officer,
very successful in the Navy and so he was
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brought down to the Pentagon in a high position
there only to find out he couldn't find housing.
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His name was Carlos Campbell.
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All I wanted was a place that was near where
I worked.
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I spent every day, virtually 24/7 a week,
looking for housing and I kept getting turned
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down and turned down and turned down.
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39 places turned me down.
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Over the telephone you have space.
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When you get there, they don't have space.
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It was about what was happening to my fellow
warriors, and they all had complaints about
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housing.
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And there was obviously a pattern of deliberate
discrimination against a young man serving
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his country.
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And I think that turned a lot of people away
from the idea of discrimination.
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But a tragic event in April 1968 created a
new urgency to act.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence
in the civil rights movement, has been shot
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to death in Memphis, Tennessee.
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All over America the black ghettos exploded
in rage and grief.
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Seven days after King鈥檚 assassination, The
Fair Housing Act was signed into law.
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It banned deliberate housing discrimination
and obligated the government to reduce the
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segregation that had isolated blacks, often
in vast urban housing projects.
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The world of the people who live here bears
very little resemblance to the American Dream.
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In the 1970s, George Romney, President Nixon鈥檚
Housing Secretary, wanted to use the law to
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help blacks move to the suburbs.
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Carlos Campbell went to work for Romney.
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He wanted to fight, he wanted to go to the
suburbs and he wanted to integrate and he
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said you have to solve these issues in the
suburbs.
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And the President of the United States, Richard
Nixon, was not supportive.
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I believe that forced integration of the suburbs
is not in the national interest.
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When you cannot get the support of a president,
you just have to sort of, like, throw up your
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hands, how do we -- how do we deal with this?
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50 years after passage of the Fair Housing
Act, many cities remain starkly divided by
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race.
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No president campaigns on the basis of affecting
integrated housing, desegregating the neighborhoods.
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Nobody.
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And it's a big disappointment to me.
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During the Obama administration, communities
receiving federal housing funds were ordered
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to draft desegregation plans or risk the loss
of billions of dollars.
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But President Trump鈥檚 Housing Secretary
Ben Carson has suspended those rules until
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at least 2024, prompting the lawsuit to be
filed against him.
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