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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I mean, we had residential schools until the 1990s and we still have a reservation system that was designed to segregate. Development and production in these communities were largely ignored until is became of interest to the federal government. There is a political system that they are largely disenfranchised from. Many of the communities also still suffer from cycles of substance abuse from 200 years ago when drugs (i.e. alcohol mostly) were pushed on them on an almost unprecedented scale at the time.
Canada is pretty much the dictionary definition of systematic racism.
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In the past sure.
Is the current reserve system systematic racism? I'm not so sure about that.
Anyways, this isn't the right thread for this. Let's not derail further.