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Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 15:36:43 -0400
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On Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC)
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> BTR1701  <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: =20
> >> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote: =20
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> =20
> >https://www.wcax.com/2024/04/15/program-help-bipoc-vermonters-become-hom=
eowners-expanding/?outputType=3Damp
> >=20
> >>>=20
> >>> ----------------------
> >>> 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.
> >>>=20
> >>> 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.=20
> >>=20
> >> "Indigenous" isn=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=84=A2' even a real thing. How do yo=
u claim that
> >> status? Shouldn't anybody who wants it just be able to say they
> >> are? =20
> >
> >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". =20
>=20
> Can I be a "people of color"?

Yes, yes you can! Because white - and your actual skin colour which is
more likely a beige-pink like mine - are both colours.

--=20
Rhino