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Originally Posted by Vulcan
What I'm suggesting there jammies is that most of the problems the natives have, is from our interference and deciding what is right for them. The list goes on and on. Natives are finally finding some stability and you want to blow it all up again. Progress is being made although like a lot of people who are trully ignorant about natives, you don't see it.
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I work sometimes on a reserve (not for the reserve directly, but I'll leave it at that), and if what I see is progress, I shudder to think what it was like before. Your assumption that I am ignorant about natives is simply wrong - I have considerable first-hand experience with how the reserves are, how the people that live there are (mostly friendly but unmotivated), and how the band leaders in general are (mostly incompetent and corrupt).
Stop assuming that because I don't agree with you, I am somehow "ignorant" about Natives, which seems to be a code word for "racist". I have no problem with Natives, I have a problem with the idea of segregration, and whether or not some treaty mandates it should be, I do not agree and will continue to advocate ways that will end what I think is a disgraceful situation.
Once you actually address just exactly why de facto segregration is a good idea, and why it is not, as I have claimed, institutionalized racism, then you will have some chance of convincing me of anything. As it is, all your arguments are irrelevant to me, as you keep arguing about my proposed methods, without coming up with any coherent strategy of your own (other than to continue policies which haven't worked for the last 130 years, as far as I can tell), and most especially without addressing my main point, which is that the entire system of treaties, reserves, and special status is wrong, wrong, and wrong.