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MIXIS FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WITH RACISTS IN EASTERN EROPE, YOU KNOW WHERE YOU STAND WAS already homeless — unknowingly a victim of housing discrimination — when my plane touched down in Kiev, Ukraine, in the summer of 2009. I was travelling on a Fulbright grant to research the lives of biracial Ukrainians, and was eager to explore how the Slavic country could produce native people who looked like me, a young black man from Detroit. A local real estate agent had promised several months earlier to secure an apartment for me before my arrival. I took a taxi from the airport to meet him. Wearing a warm, wide smile, Sergei extended his hand and welcomed me. Then he explained why his apartment search had failed: “Your skin colour has been causing us a lot of problems.” -- Read more: dawn/news/1155093
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:06:47 +0000

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