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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC)
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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-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.
>>> 
>> 
>> "Indigenous" isn’' 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"?