With the new reckoning about systemic racism in America, the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) decided that “master bedroom” should be replaced with “primary bedroom,” according to a CNN report.
So long as guest bedrooms aren’t called “slave bedrooms,” I see nothing wrong with the term “master bedroom.” (And what slaveowner ever had his enslaved workers sleeping in adjoining bedrooms under the same roof?)
I checked with REcolorado, our local MLS (which is separate from but owned by our local Realtor associations), and I was assured that there is no plan here to follow HAR’s initiative, and I suspect frankly that HAR will have second thoughts about that change. I agree with John Legend, whose response was to ridicule the change and tell them to concentrate instead on the very real issue of discrimination in real estate.
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