6.4.20 Adam News and Info, QAL concert rips
Jun 4, 2020 17:21:29 GMT -5
Post by mszue on Jun 4, 2020 17:21:29 GMT -5
Even though I am Canadian...not American...the events of the last week and a half have impacted we here almost as much as you, I suspect. In fact, I took my first trip out of my apt. that was not a quicky for groceries or essentials, just yesterday to stand with protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally! I was all masked up, etc. but it was still great to be in the company of others, and to be 'doing' something ...little as that something was. We here on my little island are a pretty homogenous group so the sum total of our diversity was 2 African Americans, one with his young3 or 4 yr old daughter, and one trans woman. And a few dogs . The organizer of the rally was a 15 yr old girl who was so very pleased that people actually showed.
I get really frustrated at my fellow Canadians who think we are so much better than our southern cousins because we do not have the racial issues that you have. But that is not true....we treat our 1st Nations peoples everybit as poorly as your African Americans are treated...we just do not have the numbers, and we were 'smart' enough to herd them all onto reservations in northern and rural areas where it is easier not to see what the RCMP and the justice system does to them. RCMP get rid of our 'undesirables' by shoving them in the back seat of a cruiser and dropping them off 10 or 15 miles out of town, in the middle of the night, in the middle of a cold winter and with inadequate clothing as often as not. Many are found frozen on the side of a country road a couple of days later. That is lynching, the Canadian way. The women are allowed to be trafficked until they die of drug overdoses or violence at the hands of some perp. So...we are not innocent and are not worthy of of self satisfaction or of any praise.
Our Prime Minister is a cutie and he is articulate...and reasonably intelligent....though nowhere near as bright as his father was. But...also...he would not be doing all the good things he is doing for the Canadian people [such as emergency funding etc.] if his political feet were not being held to the fire by the two left-ish parties he has to cooperate with because we have a minority government! The biggest reason things never change for you is that you have no opportunity to force your politicians to cooperate...you always have a majority government...you have a winner takes all set up and that is good for them but patently not good for you. IMO
But on the up side....look at what these protests have gained!! It took over 4 days for the initial charge of the first PO and another 4 or so to have all 4 charged...but it happened! That is miraculous....Let us hope it is a turning point. I am so encouraged by that. Now let us hope that some really sweeping changes take place. I am less hopeful for our issues, frankly....because people are still not seeing that we do the same things...and you cannot fix what you do not see.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. I really hope some eyes start to open with all the past events of the last few weeks...it is too easy to place our ideological blinders on and it hurts to have them removed so quickly and thoroughly. I am so pleased that Adam is putting his mouth where his power is! Good for him! So Proud...
I get really frustrated at my fellow Canadians who think we are so much better than our southern cousins because we do not have the racial issues that you have. But that is not true....we treat our 1st Nations peoples everybit as poorly as your African Americans are treated...we just do not have the numbers, and we were 'smart' enough to herd them all onto reservations in northern and rural areas where it is easier not to see what the RCMP and the justice system does to them. RCMP get rid of our 'undesirables' by shoving them in the back seat of a cruiser and dropping them off 10 or 15 miles out of town, in the middle of the night, in the middle of a cold winter and with inadequate clothing as often as not. Many are found frozen on the side of a country road a couple of days later. That is lynching, the Canadian way. The women are allowed to be trafficked until they die of drug overdoses or violence at the hands of some perp. So...we are not innocent and are not worthy of of self satisfaction or of any praise.
Our Prime Minister is a cutie and he is articulate...and reasonably intelligent....though nowhere near as bright as his father was. But...also...he would not be doing all the good things he is doing for the Canadian people [such as emergency funding etc.] if his political feet were not being held to the fire by the two left-ish parties he has to cooperate with because we have a minority government! The biggest reason things never change for you is that you have no opportunity to force your politicians to cooperate...you always have a majority government...you have a winner takes all set up and that is good for them but patently not good for you. IMO
But on the up side....look at what these protests have gained!! It took over 4 days for the initial charge of the first PO and another 4 or so to have all 4 charged...but it happened! That is miraculous....Let us hope it is a turning point. I am so encouraged by that. Now let us hope that some really sweeping changes take place. I am less hopeful for our issues, frankly....because people are still not seeing that we do the same things...and you cannot fix what you do not see.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. I really hope some eyes start to open with all the past events of the last few weeks...it is too easy to place our ideological blinders on and it hurts to have them removed so quickly and thoroughly. I am so pleased that Adam is putting his mouth where his power is! Good for him! So Proud...