Some of y’all have never experienced crushing structural oppression that coerces you into being silent about 90% of your thoughts and feelings and it shows
Over 6000 children’s graves on government run residential schools and counting and the question taking up significant air time in the French debate was on one group burning books? I am so sad for those children, their families and the moral state of Canadian politics.
Bill C-15 is a new federal bill on #IndigenousRights that is facing strong opposition from the right, but it builds on decades of work by Indigenous peoples to push the country forward.
Here is a new oped I co-wrote with @jonnysas_. https://t.co/RU9m44uE9N
@SheilaMatthen @enablingfitness @bcndp@AnnitaMcPhee @enablingfitness I see that you liked this tweet. So you agree that your apology was half hearted at best? And that your original tweet was, rather than a miscommunication, racist af? So what are you going to do about it?
@enablingfitness So the problem was your “word choice”? What words would have been better, then? What was the idea you were intending to express? What were you frustrated about? What was the purpose of your inquiry?
This tweet is in very bad taste. This is the Crown Indigenous Relations Minister(INAC) tweeting about hand washing while there are still many First Nations without the luxury of running water. How do you wash the blood off like an Indian Agent @Carolyn_Bennett@MarcMillerVM?
Fire his ass.
We need to trust that in a tense situation the police on the front lines will be making the right judgement calls.
A police officer who makes jokes about mass killing Indigenous people has no business wearing a uniform.
This is not Alabama 1955.