(08-16-2022, 10:37 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 10:21 AM)mikesez Wrote: Whatever.  This is easily searchable.  Other posters here routinely refer to events and assumptions that are much more obscure.  Are you going to deal with the facts presented, or are you going to continue to make this personal?

You’re right. Here’s the facts: This policy is racist and your failure to provide attribution was lazy.

It's funny how selective people are in what they will call out as racism.

I'm white.  When I was in the market for my first home, I didn't yet have much money for a down payment, and above all I wanted to be close to the interstate.  I asked a guy from church to be my realtor, and as he was showing me an available house, he said, "I don't want you to get too excited about this place." "Why not?" "I don't see it as a good fit for you. My wife teaches public school in this area.  Some discipline problems." "What does that have to do with me?" "I'm sorry, to say more would be breaking the law."

Turns out this neighborhood had a high number of black people, not a majority, but more than average. Later he helped a black family we both knew move to a home in the same area.  I'm sure he had many other similar dealings with families I didn't know. This casual housing discrimination is super common.   But it's never called out.  Instead we call out this other stuff because it breaks more cleanly on the blue/red battle lines we've drawn.  Which has a bigger effect on a kid's upbringing - the neighborhood they grow up in, or one of the six teachers they will have in elementary school?  Define racism however you want, but do we really have our priorities in order here?

And don't take it personally. The White people on the blue team also don't really want to discuss housing discrimination.

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