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"While attempting to purchase a condo, I learned that the seller did not want to sell a home to me because I am Black..."
(hexbear.net)
The drama played out on Twitter.
The situation spilled out into the open a few hours later, when Dr. Baxter, 30, a molecular biologist and science communicator who runs the website Dr. Raven the Science Maven, shared what happened in a post on X. Her public airing to 163,000 followers and others has drawn attention to bias that continues to plague the housing industry...
https://x.com/ravenscimaven/status/1791680744055595443
https://subium.com/profile/ravenscimaven.bsky.social/post/3ktsnuxtvgd2f
crazy how the traditions america spent 300 years cultivating keep popping up in weird and troubling ways. a black friend's parents bought their house in the 80s and the property had a racially restrictive covenant on the property (not enforced, but the phrasing was there)