Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 04:07:06 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 62 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 09:07:06 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3208 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d175c61fba64f5$41043$2863996$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3589 On 5/20/24 8:34 AM, 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-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. >> >> 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! MY heart bleeds for them, but that may just be a problem with my aorta.