Path: ...!news.nobody.at!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 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <593606096.737851247.644734.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 02:16:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0022c3f087a0c5e2fc4e2cd1936c05dc"; logging-data="3816797"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18QZgzO2zrMgYzTVBr6BQHZDqFfPAj0hSc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0X92KCP1ynkOwdAT4srYeqGsiU4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2713 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"?