How so? The other guy that wanted to buy the apartment offered 2.399m, so offering 2.4m was the lowest possible price to buy it. What's "blame worthy" about it?
Racism will exist as long as people look at the skin color or other generic markers to judge others. If you think it's okay to do so, that's sad.
Fighting racism with even more racism, will world three opposite result. It's not the first time in human history, that people mean well and create hell. It's just a different topic this time.
By that logic, does American Asian only refer to people with certain facial characteristics? And are American Europeans only those with a white skin color?
I mean here in Europe we have plenty of Europeans that are not white. So, if a black skinned German went to the US, people would suddenly label him "African" American, just based on his skin color?