“We had a conversation with one of our white friends, and she said ‘No problem. I’ll be Tenisha. I’ll bring over some pictures of my family.’ She made our home look like it belonged to her.” My friends Paul Austin (who runs one of Marin’s best non-profits) and Tenisha Tate (a high school principal) got screwed on their house appraisal. They thought it had something to do with race. So they got creative.