"A Brooklyn city councilwoman wants to know why 'blocs' of Asians are living in two Fort Greene housing projects � and suggested it would be 'beneficial' to assign housing by ethnic group."

"'How is it that one specific ethnic group has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers?' Laurie Cumbo, who is black, said at a council hearing on public housing Thursday."

Cumbo issued an apology, saying she only wanted to know if the New York City Housing Authority �uses a cultural preference priority component� in picking tenants....

Still, Cumbo told The Post, �There could be some benefit to housing people by culture... I think it needs to be discussed.�

Yeesh. Reminds me of the trouble Jimmy Carter go into 40 years ago when he campaigned (in Indiana, of all places) saying that he wouldn't use the federal government to "circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnically homogenous neighborhoods":

In making the point, he used unusually blunt language about social differences � about "black intrusion" into white neighborhoods, for example. He spoke of "alien groups" in communities, and of the bad effects of "injecting" a "diametrically opposite kind of person" into a neighborhood....

He said, "I have nothing against a community that's made up of people who are Polish or Czechoslovakian, or French-Canadian, or black, who are trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods."

"I don�t honestly know what the stereotype looks like for a heroin smuggler, but I don�t think a couple of senior citizens driving a handicapped license plate car..."

"... with their little cocker spaniel really looks like we�re much of a threat to anybody... I tell you what, I respect the law less today than I did before."

So now the complaint is that the police don't profile enough?

"Thank God Sigma Alpha Epsilon's University of Oklahoma chapter dared to go above and beyond to prove their racism."

"Thank God they actually sang a song. Because they pretty much could have done anything else without anybody suspending them or even complaining about racist behavior. Think about the chant: 'There will never be a n**** SAE.' You think they just came up with that?"

Writes Elie Mystal at Above the Law.

UPDATE: Breaking news email from CNN:

Two University of Oklahoma students were expelled today for their alleged "leadership role" in a racist chant by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members, a decision that President David Boren says speaks to his school's "zero tolerance" policy for such "threatening racist behavior."