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In article <be9l4jhgthh55dcqb22u3k9qivpnr7a66d@4ax.com>,
 shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
> <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
> >BTR1701  <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> >>anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> >>> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> 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?