Settlement for residential school survivors sought from federal government

MHz

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Isn't that what was tried the last time? The benefactors are the (white) businesses selling the toys rather than the buyers being the winners. Toys but no way to generate an income from a hobby turned business. Think of it as being 'us' with 90%+ unemployment.
 

petros

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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?
 

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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.



In case you're wondering, here's the lawyer that's pushing this. . .




His Indun name is Looksahelluvalotlikeawhitietome.
 

gerryh

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He looks like Calgary's Mayor Nenshi!!!


Really, Nenshi is Olive skinned and this guy is pasty white. Nenshi is clean shaven and this guy, is far from it. You're right, the spitting image. :roll:
 

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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.
 

gerryh

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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.


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.
 

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I hope Trudeau gives each one one million. Then each time a stupid Eliot screams and whines about natives we cAn all say shut the hell up. You got your million you little bitcch
 

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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
 

Angstrom

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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

But first I'd like you to give your car back to the natives you dirty theif. I can't believe you stole that from a poor native, you disgrace for a human. And give your house back too. If you feel so strongly about it why haven't you giving all that you possess back to the natives you bloody hypocrite ?
 

lone wolf

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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.

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
 

davesmom

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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.

LOL! Thank you for explaining to me what I said. ROTFL!
When I mean "no", I will SAY "no"!
Idiot!
 

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