Are you suggesting status indians are not capable of relating that experience to others? You seem to have a low opinion of aboriginals.
I do not think there is a substitute for personal experience in any situation. You can be told things and study things all you want, but it is never the same as actually living it.
Of course not. ignoring an unjust law is analogous to what Rosa Parks did. The comment was in response to your silly claim that people should not break the law.
I never said you should never break the law. I said you can't ignore it.
Rosa Parks didn't ignore the fact that black people were being discriminated against. She acknowledged the different treatment and faced it head on.
You are not talking about standing up to oppression, you are talking about ignoring the situation that is staring you in the eyes.
I don't want to fight the law and I have little concern over what an aboriginal (or anybody else for that matter) does on their land. I'm merely pointing out the racism inherrent in the system. If people decided that racism had no place in our society, we wouldn't have to "fight the law that makes Aboriginal people a seperate class within society" (your words not mine).
Lol, this is such meaningless BS. "If there was no racism, then we wouldn't have to worry about racism".
Do you think fundamental pieces of legislation like the Indian Act will just disappear if you pretend it doesn't exist?
I do commend you for finally admitting that you believe there are separate classes of Canadians. Look, I get that racism is OK with you as long as the once downtrodden get a leg up. I simply disagree as I've yet to see an example of long term benefit to anybody but oppressors when racism is allowed to occur. Perhaps I'm wrong but I've asked those that support our current aboriginal - racist politics for an example of a long term succesful implementation of racist political policy and despite all the silly nattering and name calling, nobody has been able to provide an example.
I have mentioned in every post that aboriginal people are in a different legal situation than other people in Canada. That is clearly not a new part of what I am saying.
It is in no way racism to acknowledge the different legal status of aboriginal people in Canada. It is dealing with reality.