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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I suspect you're unwilling to stare the hard, hard reality of social dysfunction and inter-generational poverty in the face.
It would be a much better world if the reason for inter-generational poverty among Canadian Natives was bigoted white bosses who won't hire a Native welder or accountant. All we'd have to do is educate or shame Canadians out of being bigots and the problem would be solved.
But the problem is Natives aren't getting the accreditation to become welders or accountants in the first place. And the reason they aren't getting accreditation to become welders and accountants in the first place is because they don't finish school. And the reason they don't finish school is because they're raised in neglectful or toxic homes.
For too many Natives in Canada, by the time they're 12 or so, the damage is done. And the most comprehensive and well-meaning social programs in the world can't compensate for a neglected or toxic childhood. The only way to break the chain is to take children out of the toxic environment at a young age, but that's a case where the cure is as bad as the disease.
That's the profoundly depressing reality. If only the main issue was really bigotry.
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Thank you for proving my point for me.
The First Nations that are the worst off in this country are residential school survivors or direct descendants of residential school survivors. The problem has become intergenerational dysfunction.
The problem began because of government assimilation policies. You know- systemic racism.
Segregated to reserves often on the worst parcels of land with no economic or resource base-- government policy (ie systemic racism) in order to dispossess them of their land.
Indian agents and the pass system- government policy (ie systemic racism) that excluded generations from being a part of the economy.
On reserve children receive thousands of dollars less per student in funding. This is happening today.
Federal funding gap disadvantages First Nations students, PBO says
Report by Parliament's budget office finds on-reserve schools underfunded by thousands of dollars per student
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunde...-gap-1.3487822
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There is a direct correlation between education outcomes and standard of living, including "health, happiness and community engagement."
First Nations children "have been deprived of that for a very long time and I think that needs to change," he said.
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Here is another example:
Canada discriminates against children on reserves, tribunal rules
On-reserve child welfare system receives up to 38% less funding than elsewhere
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ca...ules-1.3419480
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The federal government discriminates against First Nation children on reserves by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services that exist elsewhere, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.
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HOW IS THE PROBLEM NOT SYSTEMIC RACISM?