Bankers Still Aren't Colorblind

That this kind of stuff still goes on really frosts my shorts: The Center for Responsible Lending reports that U.S. blacks and Latinos still are charged higher mortgage rates than whites.

The spousal unit and I, two very pale and freckled white people, are in the midst of applying for a home equity loan. When we got to the checkboxes about our ethnicity, we checked the one beside the line that said we choose not to provide such information—because ethnicity shouldn't matter. One day when our daughter and her Puerto Rican fiancé are ready to buy a house, I'll counsel them to do the same. But it might not help, because she's planning to use his surname, which is Sanchez, in place of the Polish surname she got from my ex-husband.



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