When advocating for any form of justice, remember the following: you are not the problem; you are not a burden; you are not too difficult.
You are, in fact, challenging systems of oppression to ensure that we all have a just world.
It is the gatekeepers who should feel shame.
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We can cancel Canada Day & destroy all the statues we want, but the system will continue to do what it is designed to do, it will continue to attempt to destroy us and our people every day.
It’s time to do something that it not a reactionary behaviour.
Here are some options:
I really don’t want to hear about settlers being so heartbroken and hurting over the findings of how horrible residential schools were. Quit centring white feelings during Indigenous tragedies.
Teachers:
If you’re still teaching about the “fur trade” and the “discovery” of “new land” in social studies rather than colonization & how it continues today, then you are reinforcing oppressive narratives that benefit the colonial agenda.
Want to be an ally?
Teach the truth.
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