I Too Have A Dream. Today as we pause in the middle of political debauchery to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, I too dream of equal opportunity, equal housing opportunity! Equal access to security through real estate ownership!
Dr. King talked of people being "stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating FOR WHITES ONLY!" Can we be any less offended to day by limiting home ownership to those with "680 FICO's and 20% Down!"
Thomas Jefferson wrote in our Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." MLK called for "equal opportunity."
Yet today those politicos that shout the loudest about "equal opportunity" would limit the opportunities of those they proclaim to protect.
Somewhere in time "equal opportunity" has come to mean "equality of out come," Since no one can guarantee success, in deed it's against the laws of nature, positively unnatural, many have mistakenly excepted it to mean "equality of out come."
There is only one way to guarantee equal out come, that is to limit success! To limit opportunity! To limit out come!
Our current mortgage crisis is just such a case. In the name of protection, many would deny "equal opportunity"
to all but the chosen people. As Orwell said "All animals are equal some are just more equal."
"Equal Opportunity" must included an equal right to fail. We cannot expand "equal opportunity"
to housing unless we allow buyers an opportunity to fail.
To deny the masses the opportunity for home ownership to protect the few is the same perversion that distorts opportunity with out come.
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