Air Bed and No Blacks

[Don1]

If you don't know what you are up against, your attempts at ownership may be futile.

You better reconnize!

Some nincompoops believe analyzing faults (like these Harvard researchers did ) is mutually exclusive with ACTING positively in the market

I'll never understand nor countenance that profound level of ignorance.

Then again I don't have to...I just need to know how to bun it out

[Mosiah]

If you don't know what you are up against, your attempts at ownership may be futile.

You better reconnize!

[Mosiah]

It would also be interesting to see how a similar name test on black real estate owners would turn out.

Seriously?

I don't need any test or study to see how that would turn out. Stoni, perhaps, not me! I mean, why would it be any different? In fact, I would expect it to be much worse. So, if that is what you'd want to see, I-man, ok!

[Islandman]

It would also be interesting to see how a similar name test on black real estate owners would turn out.

[Peter R]

In looking ahead to "retirement" I have been considering doing something like a B&B, hopefully to supplement, rather than be the source of income. And having used AirB&B it works well if you have the right location, amenities that people want etc. etc...

I'm thinking I'm going to do my own online stuff and call it "Here Black is Beautiful" or "HereBiB" for short!

[HL]

Excellent eye PR!!

Your second paragraph on taking the initiative on building OWNERSHIP is what it is all about.

"WE" have cornered the market on complaining and finding fault.

Other cultures as you have listed would have monopolized on the 'crisis '.

Very good response Starrr.

[Peter R]

It could by extrapolation probably apply to any company or institution renting... car rental for example? I suppose that AirB&B attitude is a closer reflection of the "man on the ground".

This information demonstrates that there is an opportunity for black people to create their own Air Black & Beautiful or to participate in the original more as owner / lessor.

I wonder how Arabic, Indian and Chinese names stand up?! in fact any non-mainstream English sounding names?

[Don1]

Stoni won't touch this one.

Too hot to handle

[Mosiah]

Stoni won't touch this one.

[Don1]

Renting Rooms While being Black

Yet another study for the likes of Stoni to foolishly try refuting

Airbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggests
By Colin Lecher on December 10, 2015 01:15 pm @colinlecher

Airbnb guests with stereotypically "black-sounding" names have a harder time booking a reservation than their white counterparts, a working paper from Harvard Business School researchers suggests.

6,400 MESSAGES SENT FROM FAKE PROFILES

Using data from 6,400 messages sent by fake profiles inquiring about reservations in five cities, the researchers determined that Airbnb guests — who, under the company's system, are approved by hosts — were more likely to have their booking approved if they had names more closely associated with white people. Controlling for other factors, the guests with stereotypically white names received positive responses about 50 percent of the time, compared with 42 percent for their black counterparts.

The names were first drawn from a list of names given to babies born in Massachusetts between 1974 and 1979. Those names were then given out in a survey for people to categorize as "white" or "African American." In the end, for example, a "white" name tested in the study was "Meredith O'Brien," while a "black" name tested was "Rasheed Jackson."