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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 09:57:27 -0700
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On 5/20/2024 8:12 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 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?
> 
Not necessarily. One of my ancestors came to Jamestown over 400 years 
ago, so for a couple generations they were probably English. But after 
that, who knows. So I might have a half breed in the tree too.