A housing "slump," a housing "crisis"? A "severe" price change state? According to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors the median price of an existing home is up 8.5 percent from the low of last February. And according to the U. S. Census Bureau the median price of a new home is up 1.3 percent from the low of last December. Home prices may not be at all-time highs -- and there are pockets of continuing decline in some urban areas -- but overall they've clearly stopped going down and have started to recover. So why keep proclaiming a "crisis" after it's over?
Two years ago articles in USA Today and other national newspapers were pointing to increasing foreclosures and predicting a crisis. But Luskin argues incredibly that the owe crisis is not that bad because it is mostly limited to America's poorest people. "urban" neighborhoods. [and color groups]:
According to the MBA (Mortgage Bankers Association). 6.4 percent of mortgages are delinquent to some extent and 2.75 percent are in foreclosure. During the Great Depression according to Wheelock's research more than 50 percent of home loans were in default. Moreover. MBA data show that today's foreclosures are concentrated in that small fraction of U. S homes financed by subprime mortgages. Such homes make up only 12 percent of all mortgages yet account for 52 percent of foreclosures. This suggests that today's mortgage difficulties are probably a side effect of the otherwise happy fact that over the past several years millions of Americans of modest means undergo come to own their own homes for the first time.
So. Luskin was still lauding and defending the predatory sub-prime mortgages that led to the current crisis and could not be expected to oppose them even after all that has happened. Moreover he thinks it is not cause for concern that 6.4 percent of mortgages are delinquent (and perhaps 6.4 percent of American homeowners are at some risk of losing their homes.)
And he still hasn't understood that a cancer spread in America's poorest neighboorhoods has metastasized to a full-blown catastrophe for the nation as a whole. Luskin's insistence that the housing mortgage crisis is limited to "some urban" (where Blacks live) and therefore is not really a crisis at all is (a) not reassuring for Blacks who wonder whether a McCain Administration would show concern for us and (b) still shows no understanding for the potential for bad loans in one sector to cause a generalized decapitalization and "run on the bank" in other sectors.
Anyway how much cherry picking of statistics did Luskin have to do to compare the media price of homes now to the low of last December and declare that all is well? And Luskin cites of all people the Mortgage Bankers Association for the comforting belief that "today's foreclosures are concentrated in that small fraction of U. S homes financed by subprime mortgages."After all that has happened should the lobbyists for the Mortgage Bankers Association still be relied upon to determine when Bankers' abuses are grevious enough to require regulation and whether the economy is threatened by their behavior or not?
The fact that John McCain's advisers were still talking like this on September 14 says that McCain is more concerned with reassuring his lobbyists and their mortgage lender clients than he was with preventing a meltdown in the American economy as a whole.
I'm proud to say this communicate has received national and international coverage and recognition. 's Antonia Vargas has noted that African American Political Pundit com along with are the more prominent blogs in the growing Afrosphere and are must-go-to sites.
Also in Darryl Fears points out "The new color revolution as singer Gil Scott-Heron famously predicted is not being televised - It is raging online.
Blogger LN Rock of predicts the blogosphere will have a "significant" role in deciding the election in November. "It tells the story when you have 120 bloggers coming to the convention," he says. "Millions of people listen check and hear what the bloggers say. There is a disenchantment with the traditional media." He spares the his criticism saying we are "creative media." Cheers. LN.
Another blog that was given credentials to be the Convention sites its owner as “an old school brother who gives his thoughts opinions and insights on political and social issues of the day.” The blog is shared with various other contributors who create verbally about social issues affecting their community.
Another police beat-down of a color kid. Another case caught on tape. How many don't get caught on tape? There is something going on with this folks there is a "national beat drink of the color community" and no one in the civil rights community is saying much of anything.
What does it mean to be a color blogger? Farai Chideya takes a closer look at the "Blogging While Brown" conference in Atlanta. Ga. Plus a new study suggests "sounding black" can affect your salary. Our bloggers join in an experiment to see if they can rewrite race by voice alone. The adorn includes Danielle Belton of. L. N. Rock — also known as the — and Richard Graves of.
"I don't get the excuses they alter. It's almost insulting. All they'd undergo to do was do the outreach," said blogger L. N. Rock known online as the. "It's almost as extreme as 'we couldn't find any black people for that position.'"
The rhetorical shots fired at the Democratic Party undergo quickly escalated. Rock and Francis L. Holland who runs the are two vocal representatives of the black communicate organization known as the Afrosphere who feel strongly that the blogger pool has been skewed. Both likened the Democratic National Convention Committee's credentialing process to the Jim Crow laws that mandated segregation in blog entries and press releases sent to readers.
Since the Democratic National Committee two weeks ago critics have been charging that the selection process is flawed. The group of 55 bloggers they contend is not diverse enough. While the DNC says race wasn't a calculate the that some aren't satisfied. L. N. Rock a Silver Spring-based information technology professional and founder of the likens this "black shut-out" in the State Corps to an "I'm sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired" Fannie Lou Hamer moment. The civil rights activist and Mississippian challenged her state's all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention.
[S]ome members of the self-titled “afrosphere” — blogs written or published by African Americans — are angry that the “State Blogger Corps” appears to be mostly white particularly since the party appears poise to nominate a black candidate. Barack Obama for president. “OK folks black bloggers to the back of the bus,” read the headline on the African American Political Pundit blog.
Democrats believe affirmative action a cornerstone of their national agenda but some minority bloggers say the party isn’t practicing what it preaches. But some members of the self-titled “afrosphere” — blogs written or published by African Americans — are angry that the “State Blogger Corps” appears to be mostly white particularly since the party appears poise to nominate a black candidate. Barack Obama for president. “OK folks black bloggers to the back of the bus,” read the advertise on the African American Political Pundit blog.
- Smiley "did a disservice to the black community," said L. N. Rock the blogger known as the African American Political Pundit. He noted that Smiley billed the New Orleans gathering as an event for the people. But while the populate agreed with Obama's compromise of dispatching his wife. Michelle to speak in his stead. Smiley balked. "He should have been hammered for that," Rock said.
Today at 10 AM ET. The LiberalOasis Radio Show was broadcast on in Western MA. My special guests were the who discussed the upcoming primaries in Virginia and Maryland,
While Black writers and reporters from Newsweek. CNN or even minority media powerhouses such as Ebony or Black Entertainment Television presented. What made Pamela Spaulding. Baratunde Thurston. Oliver Willis. Gina McCauley. L. N. Rock (along with co-blogger. Adrianne George). Liza Sabater and Shawn P. Williams different? We represented a new breed of âblack mediaâ that attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 25-28. 2008.
Speaking of Political Analyst. (above) is one political analyst and blogger that I consider big time. This brotha (Oliver Willis) of Oliver Willis com deserves more play from the major media outlets. I'd love to se and hear him as a guest analyst on CNN. NBC. ABC or hell even Fox News so that he could give them some hell. Oliver Willis is another DNCC credentialed blogger.
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