I understand that there have been a rash of muggings concentrating on the elderly, taking place in therir driveways. The victims think that they have arrived home safely, and attempt to enter their homes, but before they can do so, they have been targeted by cretins who have apparently targeted them precisely because of their elderly status.

The last such attempt resulted in some minor scrapes and bruises, but the attempt failed.

I have some words for these fools.

Stop it now.

Historic Housing Discrimination on Long Island

By Michael Boyajian

Thomas J. Sugrue has written a groundbreaking book, Sweet Land of Liberty, which addresses historic housing discrimination in the nation’s suburbs in the 1960s.

At one point Sugrue states that William Levitt, the founder of Levittown, would not sell his homes to black families for fear that whites would not buy his homes knowing that blacks would also be living there.  A high ranking official at the New York State Division of Human Rights states that to this day she often wonders how different her life would be if her father had been allowed to buy a home in Levittown.