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In article <mc1p4j90uagp8j1f9jknn4duat2n78favk@4ax.com>,
 NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2024 09:34:26 -0400, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 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.