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Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:34:26 -0400
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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!

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