Re: Vermont: Free Home Downpayments, But Not for Whites

On 5/19/24 6:30 PM, BTR1701 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.
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https://www.wcax.com/2024/04/15/program-help-bipoc-vermonters-become-homeowners-expanding/?outputType=amp
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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.
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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.
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"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.

This is interesting. In the past you've claimed to be a lawyer, until I posited that you were too stupid to pass the bar exam and then you stopped saying it.  You remind me of my dad, who frequently told people he was a lawyer when he was drunk, when in fact he was the head of the claims dept. for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago and was embroiled in legal stuff all the time because he went up against lawyers on injury claims.  Either way it seems likely neither of you were in fact lawyers, which brings us to this discussion:
Indigenous (from Latin indigena which means “native to the country”) refers to the earliest known people of a region or country. It is often used to describe the remaining population of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group.
indigenous | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
LII / Legal Information Institute
https://www.law.cornell.edu › Wex
Google tells me there is a working legal definition for "indigenous" so you trying to make light of it with the closeted gay guy just looks like homosexual foreplay.  Get a room already.  Now, supposing you have some working knowledge of the law, can you tell the group why you're brain took a shit on this subject?

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".