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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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Fortunately, it sounds like she would still get the home she wanted for her offer.
It doesn't make the experience any better, of course.
I feel like a more wise real estate agent shouldn't have divulged the seller's reason, but maybe it was a guilty conscience that made them say it, knowing it'd cause an outrage.
I just can't get myself into the head of the seller, though. I could understand a racist not wanting to rent to someone of a certain race (even though I disagree with that), but I don't get not wanting to sell to them. The seller gets the bank's money, so it's not about money or dealing with the property anymore. I can only imagine irrational malice being the reason.
In my neighborhood (in a Philly suburb) most of the houses are owned and rented out by a small number of white men. So selling to black people would lower the value (in their perspective, anyway) of their other properties and those of their buddies. A guy I work with owns only his own house and is trying to sell it, but is adamant about not selling it to a black person because he's still friends with his neighbors (who are also racist white people). Racism in general is not about coldly rational economic decisions.
Damn, what assholes.