This article is searing in its importance and singularity. Canada has become a racist country against old stock citizens of pale complexion whose voice is submerged in the waters of identity politics where an Indigenous elder can claim a cow jumped over a moon and the media will rush to publicize it. Can there be anything more absurd than a claim of 215 teacher-murdered and secretly buried kids in just one school? Doesn’t matter. Every Indigenous commentator on resident schools is an expert, and a person like me with a pedigree of study is fired. There is no fair or universal standard, only race-based pandering and bleating. James Pew bravely contends: “It is boundlessly cruel to patronize people, including visible minorities, or to not hold them accountable to the same standards as the majority.” Imagine if I went around saying 215 white kids were murdered in just one of many black-majority schools in Africa. People would want proof, and if it wasn’t produced, would discredit me.
Mr Pew your words are to be lived by. They are eloquent and stark. We have been brow beaten into silence, it is important that your strongly worded comeback be broadcast far and wide. I am in total agreement. There have been many instances where the Natives were wronged and reparations are required however this particular debacle is a massive money maker for Native cottage industry. I have been reading with chagrin how the Mayor of Quesnell and his wife have been treated because she recommended the book 'A Grave Error' with nary a word from the 'paid for' press. The vast majority of folks never hear these stories in an unbiased manner as a result of our 'paid for' press.
All good and well but I am left pondering why, after all the meticulous information given and explained, there are no reasons provided for what caused conditions on the reserves to be so awful, if indeed they were, that it was supposedly a merciful act to transplant children to these residential schools. In my opinion that itself may have contributed to deteriorating conditions in that 2,3 or more generations grew up without having experienced and participated in family life, indigenous or ‘western’, after which they were ‘released’ and returned to the reservations without being equipped with the skills or experience required to start their own families. Just asking.
This article is searing in its importance and singularity. Canada has become a racist country against old stock citizens of pale complexion whose voice is submerged in the waters of identity politics where an Indigenous elder can claim a cow jumped over a moon and the media will rush to publicize it. Can there be anything more absurd than a claim of 215 teacher-murdered and secretly buried kids in just one school? Doesn’t matter. Every Indigenous commentator on resident schools is an expert, and a person like me with a pedigree of study is fired. There is no fair or universal standard, only race-based pandering and bleating. James Pew bravely contends: “It is boundlessly cruel to patronize people, including visible minorities, or to not hold them accountable to the same standards as the majority.” Imagine if I went around saying 215 white kids were murdered in just one of many black-majority schools in Africa. People would want proof, and if it wasn’t produced, would discredit me.
Mr Pew your words are to be lived by. They are eloquent and stark. We have been brow beaten into silence, it is important that your strongly worded comeback be broadcast far and wide. I am in total agreement. There have been many instances where the Natives were wronged and reparations are required however this particular debacle is a massive money maker for Native cottage industry. I have been reading with chagrin how the Mayor of Quesnell and his wife have been treated because she recommended the book 'A Grave Error' with nary a word from the 'paid for' press. The vast majority of folks never hear these stories in an unbiased manner as a result of our 'paid for' press.
Great work Folks, I know I am not alone with these issues and it helps with my wife and family. Thank you all.
All good and well but I am left pondering why, after all the meticulous information given and explained, there are no reasons provided for what caused conditions on the reserves to be so awful, if indeed they were, that it was supposedly a merciful act to transplant children to these residential schools. In my opinion that itself may have contributed to deteriorating conditions in that 2,3 or more generations grew up without having experienced and participated in family life, indigenous or ‘western’, after which they were ‘released’ and returned to the reservations without being equipped with the skills or experience required to start their own families. Just asking.