Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 02:42:06 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites References: <593606096.737851247.644734.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 19:51:45 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 56 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-B9K1B/ZZnbl8rE/RykTrI1czD7z8FBxo3vieWrcT7xt7TGa6I3mQIyW3RsXPUnLwTYKK3XYHw63GAGY!A4NfuCc7KuuG7pXOcgoIMSxiYEfAGgPcyITHk5F9sdh72vJUXU05FYLuSGfNIhaBK6bTi3exEUST!260= 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: 3688 In article , shawn wrote: > 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-homeown > >>ers-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't 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. Exactly. So how do programs like this Vermont nonsense decide who is brown enough to qualify?