{"id":200272,"date":"2021-05-23T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/23\/nope-no-racism-here-7\/"},"modified":"2021-05-23T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:55:00","slug":"nope-no-racism-here-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/23\/nope-no-racism-here-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Nope, No Racism Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlette Duffy decided to get her home appraised, and though that her home was being low-balled because she was black, so, she got another appraisal and had a white friend pose as her brother, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/after-concealing-her-race-black-indianapolis-owner-s-home-value-n1267710\">that appraisal was more than double the previous two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you do all the right things, you pay just for the color of your skin, and this is a fact.<\/p>\n<p>People who claim that racism is over because of Obama, or the Easter Bunny, or whatever, are full of crap:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">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&#8217;s home visit.<\/p>\n<p>The result? The appraisal of Carlette Duffy&#8217;s home more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy&#8217;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&#8217;s behalf with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t think that bigotry and racism is an ongoing and pernicious problem, you are a hypocrite and a moron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlette Duffy decided to get her home appraised, and though that her home was being low-balled because she was black, so, she got another appraisal and had a white friend pose as her brother, and that appraisal was more than double the previous two. Even if you do all the right things, you pay just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1001,1088,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-racism","category-real-estate","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}