maybe the middle appraiser was just bad at their job or pandemic effects were in play? if i'm reading this right, they didn't have to hide their identity for the first high appraisal, right?
The low appraisal appears to have been Jan 2021, and the first one early 2020. The drop coincides with everyone moving around during the pandemic.
Whole story is bunk, and there's an ulterior motive smell in the writing: All instances of "black" are capitalized, all instances of "white" are lowercase. This isn't normal, but is a trend among political activists.
According to [1], the NYT style guide capitalizes "Black" because "it refers to a shared cultural identity (like Latino, Asian, and Native American). "Brown" is not capitalized because it refers to a wide range of cultures, and "white" doesn't represent a shared culture and history, and additionally is capitalized by hate groups.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...
the fact that you're asking makes this especially important!
I think this is pretty objectively false, if it were true, then the white-black dichotomy wouldn't work.
> I think this is pretty objectively false,
It’s imprecisely stated, perhaps, but it gets at the real difference. Perhaps more accurately, “‘white’ is not usually the primary ethnic identity of the people to whom it, as a racial label, applies, in the United States.”
> if it were true, then the white-black dichotomy wouldn't work.
The real difference in the degree to which the two identify a shared culture is central to the dichotomy. The Black American experience of White racism involves the forced erasure of preexisting, more specific historical culture communities, ties, traditions, and identity. The White American experience leaves more specific ethnic identities intact and generally dominant over White identity except among a subset within White supremacists.
This both confirms my statement that it's a recent trend, and that it's political instead of just about race(ism).
As for how to prove any one event is racially motivated: sure, it's basically impossible. Which is precisely why this kind of problem persists. Are lawsuits against million dollar home appraisers the best way to address the imbalance? Certainly not. But you go to war with the army you have, as it were.