One Black Indianapolis homeowner shares her experience with racism in real estate after her home value more than doubles when a white man stands in for her during a home appraisal.
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dont worry, Kamala Harris, our VP said there is no racism.
More MSNBS.
MSNBS tells lies and then deletes posts that calls them out.
This very sadly happens in Canada as well😑
Yes, I saw a video on it.
Just buy a mansion in a 96% white neighborhood like BLM founder…. Then claim housing market is racist… because white flight….. who incorporated Inglewood… who built it up… not the people currently living there.
Sad when you gotta barrow your home girls husband for this.
Trust me THIS IS💯TRUE!!
You apply as White you get Easy Mortgage Financing & Low Rates.
You Apply as Ethnic Etc TO THE ROOF!
Wow and white folk says racism doesn’t exist… SICK
Owner staging
I’m not even shocked anymore…
They act like this is a new story, This has been happening forever. There are people who have white girlfriends or boyfriends and they have to have them put their names on the lease or go for the loan because they know they will be charged a higher percentage rate than anyone else or have their home valued at a lower rate than it should. This is the world and the country we live in; The sad thing about this really is when we bring this up we are told if we don’t like it then leave instead of how can we work together to fix this. Which has landed us right squared in the middle of the polarized times we are in now.
Did anyone see Megan thee Stallion, Tupac, Biggie, and Quest(I think) accent pillows.
😂😂😂😂 Not shocked in the SLIGHTEST! Doesn’t matter where we live, these banks will not give us a fair shake. And white america wants to pretend that discrimination doesn’t exist.
Poverty isn’t an excuse for letting your homes and neighborhoods go to shambles. Everyone knows the dingiest places are usually occupied by ⚫️ people. There’s other poor people all across the world of all different ethnicities that keep their homes and communities cleaner and safer than most ⚫️people in America. The blaming ⚪️excuse needs to end if y’all want to win. All ⚪️want is for you to have pride in your homes and neighborhoods and keep them in good shape and you’d have better appraisals. It only becomes racial because ⚫️people seem to be the ones who can’t figure this simple thing out. Don’t 💩 where you eat!
America is indeed racist.
⚫️ people don’t keep their neighborhoods clean or safe
Smh!!!! But yet her black female friends are laying up with white men . 🙄
This is a very evil and wicked system.
Gotta love how not a single comment on this video is willing to acknowledge how many ⚫️ homes are in very rough neighborhoods and are very run down and not taken care of… that definitely doesn’t have anything to do with anything does it!?!? Lol and people wanna just blame ⚪️ people for everything smh how about clean up your side of the street!!!
I also see the “⚫️can’t be racist to ⚪️” people are in here also. LMAO it’s like y’all want the cycle to never stop or something.
If you knew the definition of racism, you’d understand why Blacks can’t be racist in America.
There’s people just as poor as y’all across the world who keep their houses neighborhoods and surrounding 10X cleaner and safer than you people here in America do! Stop blaming poverty on having no sense of self worth and keeping your property clean and safe! Don’t 💩 where you eat!
⚪️people have every right to choose not to want to live in a run down area and to equate that as racist is totally unjustified!
But the low melanins say systemic racism doesn’t exist.
Using race as a factor to determine eligibilty and access IS RACISM! Black people need to lobby for legislation to stop this! They need to fight for constitutional rights!!!
This hurts my heart
This just breaks my heart.
This is a shame in 2021
Say it again for the people in the back who refuse to listen: “THIS 👏 IS 👏 SYSTEMIC 👏 RACISM 👏” and it’s going to end. Those who make peaceful revolution inevitable will make violent revolution inevitable.
We should be suing both of those company for unfair and illegal business practices.
I would have file a lawsuit against the banks, the appraiser and the mortgage company involved.
These evil businesses should be burned to the feikkin ground.
Forget filing a complaint. File a discrimination lawsuit. You got the proof.
This is systematic fraud going on with non white folks around the country, even happening on car loans. Boycott those lenders in question……racism and hurts in different places.
This is a FACT!! Search it out, others spoke on it & are exposing it 😠
I am so glad she was PRESISTENT in how much her home was worth. They wanted to play the games okay she played and now money is in her pocket RACSIST S.O.B.
Good for her sticking it out and working the system.
Been going on for years.
No systemic racism eh? Sounds about w… right.
Why is there race or ethnic questions in a refinance application? When selling, refinancing, or buying a home there should be no race questions 😒
Just COLD BUSTED !!!
👌👌👌
Not right!
What was the appraisal on Grandma’s house? 😆
We need to make these processes black-box. Meaning you do not know anything about the person requesting the appraisal.
WTF ‼️😳. This was what white people feared in the 50sn ,60s. If blacks moved in property prices would fall..guess they were right..sad very sad
im not even black… and went through same treatment when im trying to sell my house..,i dont have to b a black to experience same BS, i guess im a different shade of black(asian)
I don’t understand how so many Asians think white people aren’t racist against them and are so surprised when they find out otherwise. News Flash: They don’t like y’all either! They just tolerate you more than blacks and Latinos because so many of you are willing to throw away your own rich cultures and totally assimilate into white/European culture; including prejudice against other non-white people and marrying white people instead of your own people.
There are so many videos like this– SMDH😠😠😠
Wow!
I had black renters in Missouri when my house was appraised. They undervalues my home by $100,000. Something needs to be done.
For myself being born Multiracial. I figured this out in my later teen year. Fortunately my parents of which are native american on my mother side and Korean and white on my dad’s side but instead of giving me foreign last names and gave me the Caucasian last name, I’ve witnessed the privilege. Speaking “Proper” american English and being intellectualy inclined. It’s a shame on this society 😔 to have to know you can’t write down your ethnic origins in America. .
Black people shouldn’t be marrying this heathens according to the bible.
Does senator Tim Scott know about this it happens again and again somebody school that clown
Not surprised nor shocked.
Why didnt she just get her grandmother to will her the house BEFORE she died?!?! This is why a will is so important.
You don’t know the circumstances. Perhaps her grandparents did a reverse mortgage, could be any number of reasons why the home was no longer in the family. Things happen in life.
Heads must roll for this!!!
Thats America for you. Doesnt surprise me.
Wow! That is sooo wrong!I’m Do Glad my Feelings can’t be Hurt by Racism, Racist whitePpl institution Discrimination..I’d only be Upset, crying maybe, if I lost a Civil Suit 🤣..It’s Funny, Bazaar you’d Think I’d be the type of Black Girl, now woman🤔 uhmm that gets Hurt easy by whitePpl speaking they truth or showing their True Colors….
It goes to show you interracial relationships does not change your position in a racist society. You are seen as black no matter what
Tim Scott said America’s not racist. He’s still upset because Samuel Jackson was chosen to play Stephen in Django unchained and not himself.
Curious to know if the one that appraised $210,000 was through one of the lenders or appraisers she went through previously.
They always fkin w us
America!
This is the system, it won’t change with peace. These GOP racists need to be taught racism isn’t okay
Tim Scott. This is the real America all day everyday.
Well I guess I’ll use one of my white brother in-law’s when I’m ready to sell my house #SMH
Unfair lending and valuations and it’s shameful!
This is sad for our future we trying to buy in California only said we can only get 215k to buy in central valley
No it wasn’t. People always push back when you talk race. Instead of asking why they found a particular situation fascist. I’m not saying you were wrong in her situation I had a realtor license. But there have been actions proven racist in actions in the housing market. Hopefully someone can explain to her what really happen it is odd the the agency did come forward though don’t you think so.
Yes use the victim card
Lol This is utter nonsense. Nobody care who owns it when doing an appraisal! More fake race BS agenda driven propaganda from MSNBC. Imagine that.
this is such bs that this is still going on after all these years.
Even the founder of the BLM movement didn’t want to live in a black neighborhood, and purchased a home in a white neighborhood. All street shootings in Philly last year and this year occurred in black neighborhoods, that’s not a perception, it’s a fact.
Why are copper colored indigenous aboriginal natives so surprised about these things? This world was not set up for God’s chosen people. This world was made for the gentiles and heathen’s. Our Father said that they would be no more Jacob’s trouble on the lands. You paid your 400 yr debt back to God. APTTMHY HalleluYah 💥🤸🏾🗡️ psalms 94 ⚔️⚔️⚔️ on all who are Confederate against Isreal.
Sick
Someone answer these for me. If race truly doesnt matter when you’re buying a home, then why is it that we need to put down our race on the application, or when you go through a realtor, the realtor is supposed to use their best judgement and put down what they think said persons race is?
Edit:
“Race, ethnicity, and gender are requested in a specific categorical format required by federal law.” Why is any of this required by federal law?
“If you’ve made the application in person and do not furnish ethnicity, race, or gender, federal law requires your lender to note the information on the basis of visual observation and last name.” Excuse me, what?
I also think making a list of everything that improved the property is really important. I remodeled a $140,000 house with top of the line stuff since I thought I would be living there the rest of my life. My grandfather also built it. I made sure to have an entire list written of everything I did to it. I also made sure to e-mail that list to the appraiser before they came and made sure the house was CLEAN and minimal. I wasn’t there and the appraiser didn’t know what race I was. I think these things made all the difference. It appraised for $315,000 when the houses next door were around $150,000. She had to pull houses from the other side of the town to compare with. So I got everything I put into it and then some.
Same old folks no good
We have a racial pandemic
When I tell you I am outraged out. I have been outraged with systemic racism for so long, I’m tired of being tired. Like I always say, this country has mastered racism for 400 years. It will take just as long or longer to eradicate it. It is hard to stop the spread of racism if it is taught in homes to children. Theres no way that we can tell others how to teach their children. Its a cycle that will not be stopped in our lifetimes. As pessimistic as that sounds. It is reality
Wow 😳 that’s so 😢
This is the what it is. My aunt and uncle had issues selling their old house and they removed all of their family photos and “ethnic” looking art. In fact my aunt left photos of my cousins white friends on a table to look like they forgot to take them. Their house sold over asking price with in a week.
i would scream lawyer
*Keep a white person in your back pocket for this reason
We understand that they like white skin for some odd reason.
How disgraceful!!.
This is WHITE COLLAR RACISM in action.
Professional people working hard to hold back black people.
Remember they stood by the appraisal value. That’s bold as they are not in fear of any punishment!
Some places are more racist than others. Indianapolis is a disturbingly racist place. My family left as soon as they got the chance. Im not at all surprised by this, not even a little bit
He’ll im in an 80% white subdivision and I got a 60k discrepancy in appraisal value for my home.
This is what systemic racism is for anyone who was denying it existed before…
America
WHITE PEOPLE !!!!! u wanna know what white privilege is ????
ONLY needing to get your house appraised ONCE to get a fair deal
Well not in Washington
This is such an obvious race-targeted piece of marketing.
Idk….but let me ask you?
How are your kind of Kolor in terms of paying back bank loans? Are your people generally defaulting? You have to remember, banks are not charity. It’s their right to be choosy who their clients are and how much they are willing to lend you.
been going on over a century.
This ain’t no brand-new news. We all know this is a regular practice. And that’s no matter where Black people are living.
It’s a shame that Black conservatives will argue that this lady just wants to be a victim and systemic racism doesn’t exist.
Racist 🇺🇸 seriously Racist scarring
Wow 😯
I’m from Indianapolis. I’m not surprised.
This has been going on for decades and decades and decades
Shocking and afterwards will say not a racist country.
Want everyone to live in a ghetto and be supporting the prison system with mass incarceration. What a life! They say USA a country of hope don’t see any hear.
This is the legacy of redlining and restrictive covenants in denying Black people equity and inter-generational wealth.
Racism is the ugly thread that is woven in the fabric of the american flag. Racism is at the core of what america stands for. The very constitution considered Blacks as only three fifths of a white person. The national anthem is a racist epitaph written by a slave owner which proudly is sung by the omission of its third verse. Racism is as 🇺🇸 american as apple pie.
They are keeping minorities poor.
The Hatred is too real💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯no way will it change. Another battle in the war against a vile system.
Amerikkka is the last stronghold of Apartheid and they fight with every thing they have in their arsenal. The longest war in history, one day will come to an end.
You can’t hide your ethnicity when your last name clearly gives it away. My home was appraised at an astonishingly low price despite being one of the biggest and nicest homes in the neighborhood. It’s sad that this happens.