Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 15:12:43 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 17:12:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0022c3f087a0c5e2fc4e2cd1936c05dc"; logging-data="57140"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19iAYjUUNgcn7mHv/s+MspCejExG62Ze7I=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:fHiM8xwnh/6lX0q0Rqy0Dk2ncSM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3579 Dimensional Traveler wrote: >On 5/19/2024 6:26 PM, shawn wrote: >>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman : >>>BTR1701 wrote: >>>>anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>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. >>>>>"Indigenous" isn’' even a real thing. How do you claim that status? >>>>>Shouldn't anybody who wants it just be able to say they are? >>>>Yep. I'm indigenous. I was born in Kentucky and I'm not from anywhere else. >>>>And while you might say, yes, but your forebears aren't from North >>>>America... well, that applies to the people who are considered >>>>"indigenous", too. No flavor of human being is actually indigenous to North >>>>America. We all originally came from somewhere else. >>>>But much like 'African-American', any white people who actually qualify >>>>under their politically correct jargon will be told "that's not what we >>>>mean". >>>Can I be a "people of color"? >>Hell, I may even be a "people of color". My dad would sometimes make >>things up to tell us kids. Other times he told us facts. On a few >>occasions he said that his mom's side of the family was part Cherokee. >>Which was certainly possible. >>So I would have a double claim as being indigenous and a person of >>color. Even though I'm about as white as they come. >Since I have at least three ancestors who participated in the American >Revolution on the revolutionaries side _somewhere_ along the way there >has to be some bastard half-breed just waiting to be shaken out of the >family tree. You're... French?