Two community leaders are calling on a Fresno Housing Authority commissioner to resign after she expressed opposition to a Clovis housing project, saying the area might not be the “best place” for diversity.
Those critics have interpreted Commissioner Terra Brusseau’s remarks as being racist and offensive to the economically disadvantaged. Brusseau said her words have been twisted and misconstrued, and that she doesn’t plan on resigning.
The comments were made at a March 26 meeting discussing a proposed 60-unit housing project on 4.175 acres of land at Willow and Alluvial avenues designated for low- to middle-income families.
During the back-and-forth between commissioners, Brusseau talked about Garfield Elementary School in that neighborhood and the project’s potential impacts as an example of why she’s opposed. She cited public transportation and the schools the children of the families would attend as some of the issues with the project that require discussion.
“As I even just look today at Garfield Elementary School, which is what this, um, feeds into, it is a majority white school, that, um, I think there are more, better areas for diversity and our residents to feel like they are in the right place,” she said.
Same as Clovis, we tuck the diversity stuff way off in the campus corner, so as not to confuse anyone. Except for the basketball players, mainly black, they get the best housing down by the sports arena and betting parlor.
Terra Brusseau, our diversity expert in the article, is quite the babe:
Look, she even has the bleached blond look. She plucks eyebrow, no hat. She would be harassed in Islamoland. I dig those pleading eyes.
Anyway, we learn a little diversity every day, in my hometown.
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