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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 15:12:43 -0000 (UTC)
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 5/19/2024 6:26 PM, shawn wrote:
>>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:16:47 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>>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"?

>>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.

>Since I have at least three ancestors who participated in the American 
>Revolution on the revolutionaries side _somewhere_ along the way there 
>has to be some bastard half-breed just waiting to be shaken out of the 
>family tree.

You're... French?