Posted on 06/02/2024 2:15:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
A molecular biologist says she was prevented from buying the Virginia Beach condo of her dreams after the white owner learned that she was black, it is alleged.
Dr. Raven Baxter, 30, was prepared to buy the home after a virtual tour of the property. It had everything she wanted: a private foyer, wainscoting, exquisite crown molding, and a marble fireplace.
Baxter offered the asking price, $749,000, which was promptly accepted by the seller. The molecular biologist, who works remotely for Mt. Sinai hospital, then sent over a down payment and the condo went into escrow.
But then she received a call late at night from her broker, who told her that the seller, Jane Walker, 84, now wanted to back out of the deal.
'He said, "I don’t know how to tell you this, but she doesn’t want to sell the home to you, and it’s because you’re black,"' Baxter recalled.
Earlier that day, the biological scientist and her long-time boyfriend, Dr. Ronald Gamble Jr., a theoretical physicist who works for NASA, made the three-hour drive to the condo from their apartment in Alexandria, Va.
For the first time, the two scientists explored the property in person.
When Baxter had previously toured the condo virtually, her camera had been off. Jane Walker, the seller, was unaware of her race.
After concluding their inspection of the property, which is near the beach and features a view of the Atlantic, they bumped into the seller.
As the couple prepared to leave, Walker appeared and her agent, Susan Pender of Berkshire Hathaway RW Towne Realty, introduced the two parties.
Moments after the scientists left, Baxter said Walker confronted her agent, telling her that she was not willing to sell her condo to a black person. Walker ordered Pender to terminate the sale.
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Free condo.
I bet that never happened.
Notice how they say “scientists” over and over.
US leftist main stream media is on the hunt 24/7 for racism, and in a nation of 350 million, they will eventually find something - even if they have to exaggerate or completely manufacture it.
Yeah, I picked up on that. And they probably were wearing fake glasses to make them look "smart".
The Communist Ad Council has ads on our local Bongino radio station that tells how illegal this is.
They meant it only for black people though.
I don’t think they’re required to sell it to black people
‘Baby, I’m either buying your house or buying YOUR BLOCK. CHOOSE ONE.’
After that, she chose to sell.
Most likely another BS victim story.
“I could not believe what I was hearing. Well after the Civil Rights movement, after Covid, after George Floyd, ... “
GEORGE FLOYD? George was a THUG. The THUG was used as an excuse to commit violence on innocent people. We’re sick of the BS.
Under the federal Fair Housing Act, it is illegal to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status (having one or more children) or national origin in the following activities:
Sale or rental of housing or residential lots.
I bet the seller is a democRat.
“That’s So Raven!”
“Dr. Raven Baxter”
Wonder if that’s her stripper name.
Not about race at all. Don’ts no body wants to live next to no molecyour whatever.
Her PhD is not in a science. She appears to be a DEI administrator while not actually doing “science”., You be the judge…
“ In 2021, she earned her Ph.D. in curriculum, instruction, and the science of learning from the University at Buffalo, and was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.[2] Her dissertation was titled “Culturally responsive Science Communication: The messengers, messages, and voices in communicating science through Hip-Hop”.[3]”
Too bad. Why does she want to move into a predominantly white area? Blacks areas have too much crime? Oh well.
My days of ignoring race are coming to an end thanks to the left.
Sorry. I just don’t believe this. The buyer and her broker are gonna have to have a recording, other uninvolved witnesses or audio/video proof for me to believe this.
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