I have become so frustrated by our society, our nation.
My eyes are being opened to so many things within our country that need to be changed.
We sit as a nation judging the rest of the world and their messed up systems and histories and we choose to ignore our past.
We look at the South African Apartheid and wonder how that could happen. We look at them and say we would never be so awful yet that Apartheid was designed after our reservation system. We are living what we condemn in others.
We talk of genocide everywhere else in the world but what about the 50,000 children that died in residential schools due to mal nutrition. How do children starve to death in a school run by the state? Run by a first world nation. These schools that were filled with racism and hatred, that only closed in the 90s. We sit back and judge the first nations because they are so dysfunctional but how would you be if you had never lived with your family. Would you know how to raise a child if you were never raised as one?
Where is their justice? Where is there voice against the atrocities done? Why was there no one standing up for those children who didn’t have the ability to voice their pain? We sit here and say look at us we’re multicultural, we tolerate everyone.
We become so accustomed to look at the whole world and see their problems and save them; that we forget about the people who need saving here. The people living on all that is left of their culture, all that is left of their home. Being forced into reservations so we can have our big backyards and large cities.
I’m not trying to be condemning but be thought provoking. I know the statement I am making could offend, that it doesnt apply to everyone, but I am tired of everyone making assumptions based on the whisperings of others. I used to sit and make generalizations about what I thought I knew without really looking into the information. It is upsetting that Canada which has such a reputation for acceptance can be so discriminatory. That as a nation we will accept anyone from a different country but the people who were here before us, who took us in when we needed help in this land, who taught us more than we realize, we chose to ignore, to make assumptions about the way they live.