I wish George Floyd was asked nicely. I wish Breonna Taylor was asked nicely. I wish Trayvon Martin was asked nicely. I wish Philando Castile was asked nicely. I wish Eric Garner was asked nicely. I wish Michael Brown was asked nicely. I wish Tamir Rice was asked nicely. I wish..
Canada can talk all it wants about reconciliation - but until rights like the Mi’kmaq fishing rights that are under attack right now in Nova Scotia are protected, we are just hypocrites saying meaningless words. Imagine if this attack on fisheries was reversed! Shameful.
Remember when Indigenous protesters peacefully blockaded railway lines as an act of protest, and it was treated as a national crisis with active engagement by law enforcement and politicians?
That was earlier this year.
This country is so accustomed to its monstrous health care system that when a 2-year-old child with a genetic condition needs to rely on a high school robotics team to meet his basic health care needs the media thinks its a feel-good story, not a dystopian nightmare.
The moral of the story is, he lied to you for months and encouraged you to live wrecklessly during a pandemic, and when it got to him he received every top tier treatment and medication to ensure his survival while your friends and family died alone. Remember that on Nov 3rd.
Suddenly it’s the Coronavirus and not the China Virus. Suddenly we’re all in this together. Suddenly the Republican party is calling for people to show empathy. Suddenly it’s clear none of them cared until it affected them. YOU never mattered to him or them.
Donald Trump didn’t want to release his Tax Returns. And he didn’t want to take a DNA test in a rape case he was said to be involved in. Gee, I wonder why?
All of those people saying this isn't racism, it is because she is young, because she is female, because she is in a court where they don't know her. I am a young(ish!) female barrister who regularly goes to courts I am not known. I have NEVER once been mistaken for a defendant.