It won't make things any worse. The trick would be to give them something useful to buy with the money. (with a clear goal in mind)This is a problem that throwing cash at it can't fix.
It won't make things any worse. The trick would be to give them something useful to buy with the money. (with a clear goal in mind)This is a problem that throwing cash at it can't fix.
It won't make things any worse. The trick would be to give them something useful to buy with the money. (with a clear goal in mind)
This isn't the first time I've had to tell I don't use purple or use a lead to segue is it?gerryh said:Please tell me this is an anecdotal, off the cuff, story that you know has nothing to do with the topic at hand and that you are not comparing the 2.
This isn't the first time I've had to tell I don't use purple or use a lead to segue is it?
Lazy bastard.This isn't the first time I've had to tell I don't use purple or use a lead to segue is it?
He's one stylish dude!Lazy bastard.
He looks like Calgary's Mayor Nenshi!!!
He looks like Calgary's Mayor Nenshi!!!
what year?I got the strap in school for reasons that by today's standards would never fly let alone the violence but I should be thanking and paying them.
Getting the strap gave me a reputation as a badass and the eye of all the girls.
Do you KNOW how the residential schools came about? Do you KNOW what their purpose was? Do you KNOW who ran them and who funded them? Do you KNOW anything more than the odd snippet you have picked up here and there?
And you are asking this because?
I do KNOW that paying out money to compensate for past wrongs like these do not undo the wrongs. Mistreatments in residential schools haven't caused the victims to live in poverty and need.
Oh individual cases do matter. When you scrape the truth off your shoes you
will find the actions by governments, churches and vested interests were in
fact as guilty as any South African government practicing cultural genocide.
What was done to those who were already here is a bloody disgrace.
Some say we brought modern ways, well bully for us, the people here did not
need our ways they had their ways. We our great grandfathers and great
grandmothers stole the land and butchered the future of it for their own ends.
Then they start with the line that makes me laugh "Why can't they just forget
and move on" Are they kidding that is like having someone steal you car on the
desert and they drive back and forth everyday to Tim Horton's while you look for
water. I think it is time for restitution for individuals and or their families for the
injustice and the theft that has taken place.
I do not understand why some would even try to justify the level of injustice done
it is not a matter of guessing it is a matter of human decency
Most residents of Residential Schools were placed for two semesters, spring and fall, with a week home during and long breaks in between.
Probably amounted to 6 months or so of organized education, good diet, community.. and likely some evangelization as well. The rest of time they spent at home. Most teachers and administrators were dedicated, caring and competent at the tasks. The kids often found refuge from households where alcoholism and brutality predominated.. and their lives consisted of nomadic trapping and illiteracy and domestic violence.
It has now become the 'accepted truth' that these insitutions were filled with sexual predators, systemic abuse, cultural denigration... especially when it became obvious that some money could be got by validating this fable. The cardinal crime here, of course, was that of evangelization and conversion... as the concept of the 'noble savage' now holds primacy in our culture.. over degenerate white Christian civilization.. fostering 'white man's guilt'.
And no one accepts that guilt more personally than our incompetent little twit of a Prime Minister, Justin.
So, in other words, no. You don't really know anything about the residential school system. Who was responsible for what and what it's main goal was. Yet here you are, commenting on who is and isn't responsible.
Lazy bastard.
In case you're wondering, here's the lawyer that's pushing this. . .
His Indun name is Looksahelluvalotlikeawhitietome.
Probably had something to do with the facts that the bodies would show signs that they were brutally murdered. A Gitmo for kids if you would need a comparison.If residents were so safe, explain graveyards of kids whose spirits most likely would have wanted their bodies buried at home ...
‘This is somebody’s young kid’: The unmarked graves of Brandon’s residential school | National Post