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

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

 

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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.

 

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?

Two of the known ancestors were Founding Fathers (one as an Ambassador to France) and the third served in the Continental Army.  Does that make me French?
(No, wait, I suppose technically two of them served in the Continental Army....)
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