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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I lived in close proximity to a reserve. We traveled to a reserve school for basketball, volleyball, hockey, etc. and over the years from growing up I have seen a lot of things. People don't like to hear the truth but I have seen first hand the stereotypes. Now I fully realize that they don't make up the entire populace but the stuff you hear and read about does and has gone on. Does claiming you have seen some messed up stuff make you racist?

Oh you've done it now.

Don't you know that anything but full unadulterated dismissal of all stereotypes on CP is not allowed? No one on here rolls their eyes or gets uncomfortable when a group of drunk natives get on the train. We're all perfect, pure, humans.

The thing is, the stereotypes are true. Just look at the substance abuse, literacy, crime, STD, and other health and race-relation statistics for Aboriginals. Denying these stereotypes is just trying to be PC. The problems are real. The thing is the root cause for all of these problems is what Canada has done to the the first nations people by sticking them in segregated reserves.

It won't get better and the race-relations won't improve until the reserve system is abolished and the first nations people assimilate with the ROC. Plain and simple.