Airbnb Robs African-American City by Blocking Ads Lying about “Slave Quarters” on a Former Plantation in the Mississippi Delta
Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive, Scottish Novelist Sir Walter Scott, 1808
By becoming the official prefect of former slave properties along the East Coast, Airbnb is driving a nail in the economic coffin of the small, rural city of Greenville, Mississippi, one of the poorest cities in this country.