Inside Story Americas - Canada's Katrina moment?

screaminmeani Says:

Jan 26, 2012 - i get it. im saying how do we know who owes the money if you don't know what area or band they come from? just helping you refine your arguement since you don't know which groups in canada should be paying. most bands identify strongly with "their" tribal lands, regardless of borders.you never answered my ? about the buffalo soldiers. if the hbc and others that can't be trusted were documenting th trade whose version of culpability do we believe?

screaminmeani Says:

Jan 26, 2012 - fn pay taxes too! therefore it is th gov that should pay reparations not the individual band councils according to your logic. if we apply it equally to injured and disempowered groups. seriously though, please back up your assertion that canadian fn owned african slaves.there was slavery but slavery was outlawed in canada under brit rule around 1783, and there was no direct african slave trade within canada, with the markets and ships full of death.

niggeritarianistics Says:

Jan 27, 2012 - As I said before, 1. There is no such thing as Canadian FN, rather, there are FNs in Canada. This is not to deny people citizenship or equal rights, which probably ought to be universal rather than national,but to recognize that their nation existed previously to ours and should not be subject to it unless they choose to be. 2. It is not my claim that the FN people of what was or was to become Canada owned A slaves, but that some first nations people did.i c the dificulty...

niggeritarianistics Says:

Jan 27, 2012 - you have incorrectly assumed that I know what "first nations" means. my apologies, I have used this phrase to refer to indigenous peoples of all of north america, rather than limiting it to the groups oriented primarily in Canadian territory as is the commonly accepted convention. This has lead to miscommunication.I will do some research to try to discover whether any FN in Canada did own African slaves, bcuz i know many bands had slaves from neighbouring bands.

screaminmeani Says:

Jan 27, 2012 - you incorrectly used the term. why am i at fault if you don't understand it? please be careful which sources you look to for fn history. some experts are notorious racist fuckheads, example tom flannigan. i think the current lack of housing and clean water is a basic human rights issue and more pressing than the cultural history, personally. how come all your comments were removed?

TheModelfunds Says:

Jan 27, 2012 - Do you really want to look at this Guy ? or ART MODELS VIDEOS ?

niggeritarianistics Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - you aren't. thats why i said "my apologies." it was my mistake to use this term in an unconventional way without clarifying. I recognize that history is written by the victors. the current lack of housing and clean water is a basic human rights issue which stems from cultural history and won't change until on res and off res culture in Canada changes. ...

niggeritarianistics Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - I think that the lackadaisical attitudes about human rights due to values systems which teach that we live in a meritocracy and that the fear of a lack of basic human rights is somehow a motivational force which can compel people achieve their utmost potential in the development(/refinement) of our species are the main problem. It is important that atheists are not immune to this worldview. ...(2)

niggeritarianistics Says:

Jan 29, 2012 - my comments were removed because that is what I do when I have made that type of comment. if you'd like a record of them I can PM it to you.I am against bigotry, but I have been racist for a long time, and believe it to be a hatefully neglected science.we could build or fund every facility, and if nothing else but that changed, they would all rot.This is what we must do something about, before more of the resources due to these people are wasted in this system.

grimywise Says:

Feb 2, 2012 - its funny how you have to watch news from outside canada to get the real story about whats happening inside canada. you dont see this on cbc.. our government is racist against our aboriginal people without a doubt.

melloyello696 Says:

Feb 7, 2012 - The money that is given to the reserves and taken all by the chiefs... 80 Million has been given over the last 5 years for housing in specific. DONT buy the Attawapiskat crap that they are innocent victims here... The average house lasts less then 15 years on a reserve whereas in the cities they last far longer - turn of the century homes are not uncommon.Blaming the white man is not an approach - time to wein the natives off of the government teit.

melloyello696 Says:

Feb 7, 2012 - This is totally biased towards attawapiscat - THE CHIEFS are the ones to blame. I am compltely disgusted with these chiefs going to the UN and red cross instead of blaming themselves from stealing from their own people. YOU PEOPLE DISGUST ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bradlee180 Says:

Feb 13, 2012 - Ain't gonna happen as long as your prime minister and your gov't insist on keeping their perverse Canadian law called the Indian Act. Natives don't want it as it violates their human rights keeping them subjugated, the Canadian tax-payer shouldn't want it as it keeps them eternally footing the bill, so complain to your prime minister and your gov't as it is them that have the power to change Canadian law but want to keep The Indian Act at all costs instead.