For decades upon decades, the United States government attempted, to no avail, to achieve fair housing practices for both black and white communities. However, despite the efforts, the implementation of the laws set in motion by the government were foiled by the reluctance of the people for accept and follow the laws. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has proved to be useless in their feeble efforts change the discrimination and segregation of African American. However, this is not the fault of one single department, but the fault of a multi-departmental failure within the government. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration also took part in standing idly by as African Americans were discriminated against, giving the reason that they refused “to underwrite loans that would bring ‘incompatible’ racial groups into newly created white areas.”

To read about such ineffectiveness of the government to bring about change to the unfair housing practices for African Americans to this day was very upsetting and very disturbing to me. Even with the president’s intention to fix the discriminatory housing practices could not even fix the problem. Does that mean there is a flaw in its execution or that the problem is simply unfixable? Though, there could very likely have a flaw in the execution of the laws that were meant to help the African Americans, I think that there is an underlaying reluctance in the people of city, state, and government agencies, those who are involved in the nitty gritty details of the laws, to help implement change. These people, most likely white Caucasians, working in the government also bring in their social and political views in the work that they do, as any human being would. Their social and political views may not align with what the departments were trying to implement, thus subconsciously thwarting the plans to fix the discriminatory housing problem. This “internal wrangling” needs to stop immediately in order for there to be actual change for the people of the country. This problem has gone for far too long for the country to continue twiddling their thumbs in inaction.