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She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.
(www.nytimes.com)
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Not surprised. My wife passes for white. I don't.
When we went house hunting, we thought it would be a good idea if we toured separately.
The realtor showed me a nice place and said, "It's pretty popular for the urban demographic." Whatever the fuck that meant. Apparently the wife also toured the same place, where the agent said that this isn't an area to raise children." And wouldn't explain what she meant by that.
I vehemently disagree with you. Potatos are our friends.
Sorry you had a racist piece of shit for a realtor though. Fired.
Are you calling white people potato's? Cause if so thats a new one and I can't say that you're wrong
It's the commenter's username.
I will proudly accept the label of potato.
Cracker, chip, crisp, what's the difference?
I honestly do not understand what the realtor meant by these things. can anyone explain?
Simply put, it's perfect for black people and dangerous for whites.
ah yeah that makes sense, cheers
Yeah, "urban" is an American dog whistle for "black and/or Hispanic", e.g. "the young man who rang our doorbell was so urban. i don't feel very safe."
It's called "steering", and it was very illegal for her to do.
I don't get how anyone can be racist enough to let them stop them from making serious money.
You would be VERY surprised - bigots are usually very willing to shoot themselves in the foot. I mentioned going to my city's Pride parade once to a prospective landlord I was touring an apartment with, and they all but told me outright "I won't rent to you". I've also seen this happen with friends buying cars - a buddy asked me to go kick tires with him when he was looking for a new car, and since I'm white and he isn't, the salesman that came out to talk with us IMMEDIATELY assumed I was the one buying the car.
I also used to work commission-based sales myself as a cellphone salesperson. One common complaint I had from a lot of my Black and Hispanic clientele was that the anchor store sales staff (who were closer to them and better-stocked) would almost always assume they wanted to see the worst, shittiest phones (this was back right as the iPhone 5 was coming out), even if they had walked in ready to drop several thousand dollars on new Apple phones (which got us a commission of about $100 per device). These people would drive 20-30 minutes past THAT store to come to my store (the next closest) just so they didn't have to deal with those salespeople.