The Black tax in housing makes me mad every day. At *closing,* my loan didn’t go thru despite my 790 credit rating, a letter saying I had a tenured job + two decades at my previous job. Turns out the mortgage loan officer entered Black under race. (He didn’t bother to ask me).
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1315009718314770433
The white couple selling the house—knowing I had a tenured job/great credit—waited till closer to my job start date as the bank officer suggested. The housing market tanked. The mortgage didn’t go thru, cause, well, I was still Black. The sellers lost the home they had bid on.
When I insisted the (new) mortgage officer didn’t list my race, it sailed thru. I’m sitting in that fabulous house now. Because the market had dropped, I saved $40,000. *It cld have gone the other way.* Mortgage apps are a good time to claim any one drop of whiteness we all have.
I love being Black every day, without fail. But I hate white supremacy + what how it squeezes us at every juncture. And I hate how our white friends/colleagues can ignore + wave off how white supremacy steals frm us when we advocate to counter its effects. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
They say it’s to measure discrimination but they use it to enact discrimination.
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