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HUD, national origin and The Golden Rule
"Editor's note":  The following is directly from HUD's site- as sadly, ActiveRain is not one of the 335 sites to which I could've directly shared it.
Overall, this HUD initiative should be looked at as a positive....maybe...I think.  But then again, I just don't know.  Oftentimes, good folks doing the right thing have trouble recognizing the wrong thing when they see it- and often those same good folks have a hard time believing that others would do the wrong thing when they're told about it.  Those folks benefit from these types of things, and the would've-been-discriminated-against folks are the ultimate beneficiaries.  All is well, right?  Perhaps.
 
Who doesn't benefit from these types of forums and focuses?  The folks (and I count myself among them) that know what's right and know what's wrong- and choose the path of right.  This won't help me a bit.  This won't change the way I do business and lead me to treat folks any differently than I do now.  It won't light a bulb over my head and have me thinking "Dang!  I did my background checks on Julio, saw that his credit was great, saw that his rental history and employment history were excellent, discovered ... more

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