Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:57:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 16:57:27 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="589536"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZKQ166CRYXu3ZlTcJXK6TeVd0ZY= Content-Language: en-US X-User-ID: eJwFwQERADEIAzBL4waFySnl8S/hk7gwKB0Bj40tP7qT418LzO3zELxvipPUmpocWGnkifoBM5ESJQ== In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4114 Lines: 60 On 5/20/2024 8:12 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > 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? > Not necessarily. One of my ancestors came to Jamestown over 400 years ago, so for a couple generations they were probably English. But after that, who knows. So I might have a half breed in the tree too.