@snood,
snood wrote:
It still just seems to me that White people - even the well intentioned ones - have an extremely hard time believing that Black people are treated differently by law enforcement than they are. It’s like they see individual cases like (insert any one of dozens of brutalized blacks that made national news), but they somehow just
can’t fathom - can’t accept - that this is longstanding and systemic.
Sorry this is so long.
I don't have a hard time believing it because it happens in Canada with regularity. We don't have a large Black population, but we have plenty of First Nations people.
"The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) human-rights crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States, notably those in the FNMI (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) and Native American communities.[1][2][3][4] A corresponding mass movement in the US and Canada works to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) through organized marches; the building of databases; local community, city council, and tribal council meetings; and domestic violence trainings for police.[5]
MMIW has been described as a Canadian national crisis[6][7][8] and a Canadian genocide.[9][10][11][12][13] In response to repeated calls from Indigenous groups, activists, and non-governmental organizations, the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau established a national public inquiry, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, in September 2016.[14][15] According to the inquiry's backgrounder, between the years 1980 and 2012, Indigenous women and girls represented 16% of all female homicides in Canada, while constituting only 4% of the female population in Canada.[16] The inquiry was completed and presented to the public on June 3, 2019.[14]
Full article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women
First Nations have been treated horribly. There are communities without safe drinking water (under a boil water advisory). Their houses were hastily built and are in terrible disrepair. Because they are in remote communities, the price of food and other necessities are exorbitant. They don't have decent, if any, wifi in some communities. Because of their remoteness, they usually just have a nurse in a clinic and have to fly to get more serious medical treatment. This has been going on for years.
Before that, we interned the Japanese during WWII and stole their belongings. Before that, we mistreated the Chinese, and had a head tax.
I cringe when I think about what our people has done to other people, particularly those who were here before us. We needed the Chinese to build our railway. We kicked the First Nations off their land. We stole their children and put them in residential schools that were cruel. They were denied their language and their culture.
I wonder what kind of psychological testing recruits have to go through, and if there is ongoing counselling for them. I mean, I'm sure they have counselling available, but do any of them use it?
