Canada is an apartheid state. Most Canadians refuse to look at this – being more interested in issues relating to the mid-east or to our neighbors in the south. But we are an apartheid state. We have no moral high-ground to preach to anyone from. Not until we do the right thing by the Natives. And that will not be easy.
These people have every right to be angry. Their restraint amazes me. I’m amazed that they have not started blowing white people up. It’s better than what we deserve. We have attempted genocide, murdering 50,000 of their children in the residential school system. (A system that only stopped in 1984.) We are still attempting genocide.
The First Nations have been forced to live in the squalid remains of their concentration camps while our government does everything it can to ensure that they have undrinkable water, no future and no stake in Canada. It has made it impossible for them to govern themselves, leave their prisons or improve their lives. Our government is fucking murdering these people. No one cares. We do it slow and quiet up here. Every reservation is a Guantanamo Bay.
If they speak up, the natives are called terrorists. Men like Dudley George get shot by the police upon orders from the Premier of Ontario. And nobody is punished and nothing happens. Dudley George was not white. He’s just another dead Injun, thrown on the ever-growing pile and forgotten by his killers. But he was no terrorist. Defending your children, your heritage and your life — your right to clean water — is not terrorism. It is self defense. Doing it peacefully, as he was, as Shawn Brant did this weekend, is heroism.
So my belated Canada Day greetings are this: Fuck Canada. This country is a lie. I hope all your flags burn and your firecrackers blow up in your faces. And the only reason I can say that without fear of vanishing in the night is because I’m white. Some country. I hope it rots.
3 comments
Anonymous
July 2, 2007 at 7:06 pm (UTC -5)
I applaude you for saying this . I totally agree but as usual , you are more eloquent . No one has the balls to say what you said . Shame on us, acting like some phony example of humanitarianism to the world .
Ryan Oakley
July 3, 2007 at 6:01 am (UTC -5)
It’s all propaganda.
I could go on for hours but what really gets me about the whole thing is that I’m of British descent. The Queen gave these people her word about these land claims. If the monarch’s word doesn’t mean shit – then what does?
(I actually gave Adrianne Clarkeson shit about this when I met her. She was very smooth and pulled of an escape like I’ve never seen.)
Where the hell has honour gone?
Anonymous
July 3, 2007 at 9:26 am (UTC -5)
I don’t think the Queen has a word to give anymore . She’s a puppet for the Politicians There’s no room for honour when greed rules. Talk about “Indian Givers “.