The blame game.
Well identified in Sociology 101 as a “Culture of Helplessness”.
First Nations in Canada have on an ethnicity basis some of the highest rates of:
Child abuse.
Spousal assault.
Incest rates.
Murder.
Incarceration rates.
Alcoholism.
Drug and substance abuse rates.
Fetal alcohol syndrome.
School drop out rates.
Illiteracy.
Social services dependency.
And on and on the horrible list goes.
It’s gut wrenching.
And it’s truly a national shame.
And some vested interests say it’s all whiteys fault.
But whitey isn’t all that snow white these days.
Walked around TO or Van city lately?
Whitey is more pinky, whitey, yellowish, light brown, medium and dark brown followed by last but certainly not least by black.
Jewish, Sunni, Buddhist, Animist, Shia, Greek Orthodox, Wiccans, Taoist, Hindu, Gnostics and Dervishes.
And lets not forget the good old beleaguered white bread Catholics.
Its like trying to categorize grains of sand.
I assume that it is probably difficult to explain to a refugee of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a rape and robbery survivor, every living relative exterminated, survivor of the refugee camps and now a grateful Canadian immigrant how he is now a “squatter” and owes another ethnic race compensation because of his “ abuses”.
And how about the descendants of the black slaves that took the underground railroad into Canada?
And they now owe on a purely ethnic basis?
In my view the Indian Act is probably the most racist document enshrined in the Federal Government today.
Time for a complete re-do.
