Path: local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 18:24:24 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 11:33:58 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 58 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-16rf9d0PdMtJDsICk0feiFQJZAHo2v1wjetXxWqh1EZKjWBIz4MciI5QpLK0w7e+Bo3AvRNPg7q7lNS!9QWhB+G1bZdqq4/I+Xi5JJ3ieha+8JffAZhdJEV0gQ1uguwXX0IJ8qItE83DrGTORy7kHZ+r++Rr!YS4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4010 In article , NoBody wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2024 09:34:26 -0400, FPP wrote: > > >On 5/19/24 4:52 PM, 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-homeow > >> ners-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. > >> > >> Of course there's no way this is legal under federal civil rights law and > >> the 14th Amendment, but if you're a 'progressive' such things don't > >> concern you. > >> > >> If you find yourself wondering whether one of these race-based prog ideas > >> would be constitutional or not, just ask yourself if the races were > >> reversed-- a program for home loans that's only available for white > >> people-- and if your first reaction is, of course that wouldn't be legal, > >> then you have your answer. The legalities don't change when the races are > >> swapped. > >> > >> It's not even a close call, legally. The proponents of this kind of thing > >> also often openly admit it's discrimination, helpfully providing all the > >> evidence against them that you'd need in court. Sure it's racial > >> discrimination, they say, but you deserve it. That's what you get for > >> being white when there was slavery centuries ago that you had nothing > >> to do with. > >> > >> But that doesn't hold up in court. Even moviePig's 14 1/2 Amendment > >> doesn't say, "Racial discrimination is not allowed unless they have it > >> coming." > >> > >> What needs to happen is that the victims of discrimination in programs > >> like these-- the white people-- need to start suing. A few have, here > >> and there around the country, and when they do, they easily win. But > >> the lawsuits need to be more widespread and instantaneous whenever this > >> racial nastiness rears its ugly head. Shut it down immediately. > >> > >Poor Whyte people... they never catch a break. Sad! > > And FPP appears to be in favor of race discrimination. Oh this is nothing new. Effa has been openly in favor of state-backed race-based discrimination against white people for years now.