If Julian Castro Is Running for President, He Should Stop Running Away From Dallas
Looks like former San Antonio mayor and HUD Secretary Julian Castro is really running for president in 2020. Great. Maybe now HUD will show me those documents it's been promising for a year and a half.
It’s simple. If he’s going to run for president under the Democratic flag, then Castro needs to clear the decks on what he did to Dallas when he was at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This isn’t me making a mountain of my personal molehill. This is simple political physics.
From Castro’s days as America’s youngest mayor of a big city to his tenure as Barack Obama’s housing secretary, he has consistently declared racial desegregation of housing in America to be an important verse in his personal battle hymn. How could he not? He’s a Democrat.
But saying it and doing it are two very different things. Housing is the brick wall the American civil rights movement finally ran into. All Democrats say they’re for housing integration, but when you start talking about putting federally subsidized housing into middle-class or, God forbid, affluent white areas, the better-off and whiter Democrats start shuffling for the exits with their eyes down and hands in their pockets.
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