Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 21:26:29 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <593606096.737851247.644734.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 03:26:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f27885e64da4faad42f5cd5c20eb8766"; logging-data="3838668"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/a09GGEseT9jBOZ6aJiCj9qgeV+eC6lhs=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cQDq00ga+0GIZUnuRNiLqCgmzrQ= Bytes: 3317 On Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >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.