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Re: After she concealed her race, Black Indianapolis owner's home value more than doubled

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 18 May 21 7:32 PM | 27 view(s)
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I've no doubt there are examples of prejudice.

But every case is an individual one. If people assume it, they'll see it everywhere. I see a lot of people guessing about people's motivations, when to me it isn't obvious.

My own experience of meeting many Americans across a quarter century was of people trying very hard to be as decent as possible regardless of skin colour. But obviously that's a small sample and there may be places that racism is a major issue.

Newspapers aren't a great way to gauge the issue, in my opinion. Their sample is skewed against everyday interactions. They search for unusual cases.

And there's a massive industry promoting the idea that everyone is horrid and they are victims of their horridness. Indeed, the identity of lots of people, and even their income stream, depends upon them seeing racial issues where none exist. We saw something of exactly that sort when Meghan and Oprah allowed lies to be spread around the world about the British royal family's imaginary racism supported by fake headlines in British newspapers appearing on US television screens. That was certainly prejudice ... of the xenophobic sort.

So that's the quality of US media on the subject. You can't trust them to tell a story fairly. The prejudice that people are racist is everywhere. Even where you'd think telling the truth matters.

So starting from the position that we know the US media assumes racism where none exists, I believe you guys are far better than you are presented - in racial terms. But no one will ever cure their society of prejudice altogether because discrimination of various types is a tool of survival. There will always be some of it.

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After she concealed her race, Black Indianapolis owner's home value more than doubled
By: clo2 in ALEA
Tue, 18 May 21 3:08 PM 		Msg. 42157 of 54425

Race is a big issue in this country, unfortunately.

After she concealed her race, Black Indianapolis owner's home value more than doubled
The homeowner suspected race played a role in her first two low appraisals. Now her experiences are part of complaints with federal housing authorities.

May 17, 2021, 8:28 PM EDT
By Antonio Planas

A Black Indianapolis homeowner who had a nagging suspicion that her house was lowballed in two appraisals last year went to great lengths to conceal her race in a third. She removed photos of herself and her relatives and had a white friend pose as her brother for the appraiser's home visit.

The result? The appraisal of Carlette Duffy's home more than doubled.

Duffy's home, which was assessed by different companies last year, was first appraised at $125,000, then $110,000 and finally $259,000 in November, according to the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana. The nonprofit announced this month that it had filed housing discrimination complaints on Duffy's behalf with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Amy Nelson, executive director of the group representing Duffy, said it's "heartbreaking" that she had to do so much to secure a fair appraisal.

"In order for the value of her home to be accurate, she had to remove herself completely from the home," Nelson said Monday. "She was at first ecstatic that she did in fact get the value that she thought her home deserved. ... But then almost immediately after, she was heartbroken with the fact of what she had to do in order to get that value."

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