Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NoBody Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 07:29:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 13:29:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="73e7420d02382c65e32f991f8f022bd7"; logging-data="614214"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/JNrsHm3TcoUAQy4HA4Yxj/KrTAKXsvNA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:K4TF68Qs9Rvst3biI2CyazcJcOI= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240521-0, 5/20/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 3683 On Mon, 20 May 2024 09:34:26 -0400, FPP wrote: >On 5/19/24 4:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> It's called the Homeownership Down Payment Program and it provides a >> $25,000 forgivable loan only to buyers who are black, indigenous or people >> of color who are buying a permanently affordable home through the Champlain >> Housing Trust or its partner agencies across the state. >> >> https://www.wcax.com/2024/04/15/program-help-bipoc-vermonters-become-homeowners-expanding/?outputType=amp >> >> ---------------------- >> There are plenty of low income white people who could use a leg up to help >> buy a home but they're shit out of luck in Vermont, where they'll be told >> they have the wrong skin color to access that benefit. >> >> I wonder how they'll treat someone who is half-white and half-black? Maybe >> it goes by looks. If you look black enough, like Obama, you get the loan. >> If your white parent's genes came through, then no loan for you. >> >> Of course there's no way this is legal under federal civil rights law and >> the 14th Amendment, but if you're a 'progressive' such things don't concern >> you. >> >> If you find yourself wondering whether one of these race-based prog ideas >> would be constitutional or not, just ask yourself if the races were >> reversed-- a program for home loans that's only available for white >> people-- and if your first reaction is, of course that wouldn't be legal, >> then you have your answer. The legalities don't change when the races are >> swapped. >> >> It's not even a close call, legally. The proponents of this kind of thing >> also often openly admit it's discrimination, helpfully providing all the >> evidence against them that you'd need in court. Sure it's racial >> discrimination, they say, but you deserve it. That's what you get for being >> white when there was slavery centuries ago that you had nothing to do with. >> >> But that doesn't hold up in court. Even moviePig's 14 1/2 Amendment doesn't >> say, "Racial discrimination is not allowed unless they have it coming." >> >> What needs to happen is that the victims of discrimination in programs like >> these-- the white people-- need to start suing. A few have, here and there >> around the country, and when they do, they easily win. But the lawsuits >> need to be more widespread and instantaneous whenever this racial nastiness >> rears its ugly head. Shut it down immediately. >> > > >Poor Whyte people... they never catch a break. Sad! And FPP appears to be in favor of race discrimination.