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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
yikes
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I tried very hard to watch that whole video. I made it to 6:41 and had to put it down as I was getting so irritated with them all just yelling stupid s*&^ so that no one could even make a point; not that anyone had a point to make from what I could tell.
Some native leaders had better step up soon and get control of this and either lead the people or tell them to shut up before they do more harm than good.
They don't have a clue what they want, or how to go about getting what they want should they ever decide what they want.
I predict this whole movement is going to backfire very badly in their faces similar to how this "hunger strike" has gone for Theresa Spence.
I have a native employee who moved here not long ago from Manitoba. I asked him the other day what he thought about the Idle No More movement and he kind of chuckled. He said his dad is very involved in Native politics in Manitoba and their goals are different than everyone elses. I guess they are concerned with proposed oil sands development similar to Alberta's which they feel will negatively impact the environment. His band started on board with the INM movement but have distanced themselves lately as they don't see it being a movement they want to be associated with. He also said that it seems part of the problem is that natives across Canada are using this movement but each band has a different agenda, some more legitimate that others, that he can't even keep up with what the movement is about any more.
I am not a racist by any stretch. I have native friends and have been around numerous reserves and had many personal experiences with natives and the "way things work" on and off the reserve. Call me what you want but I do have a level of distrust and distaste for the way my money, my tax money, is being wasted by our government and being put in their hands to waste it even more wantonly. It's not racist. I have the very same distrust and distaste for Quebec and the crap that comes along with it.
Jump on me if you will, but in my experience there are a lot of natives who want more, more, more and believe that they are entitled due to the sins of many, many years ago. They believe that they are immune to change. Natives were killing each other for land long before the white man came along. If white men never came along what would have happened? Nobody knows. That's history boys, sorry. Natives talk about ancestral hunting rights then whack moose and deer with high-powered hunting rifles and carry them out of the bush on their quad. So what do you want in that instance? Tradition or not? Change only when it suits you? Natives believe that they can do what they want, hunting and fishing wise, because that's what their ancestors did. Our ancestors did bad things to the natives so should that carry on too? It seems a lot of their arguments are based on history making it right for them to do the things they do, but history makes us pay for what "we" did.
Again, call me what you want. Call me a racist. I'm admittedly not terribly educated on all the issues so I have based my opinions on what I feel. These people have a chance, over and over, to voice their concerns, educate me and possibly change my mind but they seem to always fail to do so and call me a racist instead. This video just shows it again on a very small scale. If you people just want to yell for the sake of yelling, I'm out and I will continue my so-called racist opinion against you.
Huh, sorry. I just started ranting there!