Thought of the Day

This is a comment that came from the Winnipeg Free Press site on an article by Colleen Simard, and my rebuttal of that post.

Original Comment from an anonymous person:

Ms Simard, this column seems somewhat superfluous. Just another excuse to pick.

I agree there should be adequate education funding on the reserves.

But I don't agree we(government) should have to replace houses every time your people destroy them. We don't live in them, they do. If I destroy my abode, nobobdy's going to replace it for me.

Opportunities? Can nobody think on those reserves? Has nobody (aboriginal) got any ideas? How about building houses?

I agree there should not be a delay in implementing something as basic as hand sanitizers, but from what I've heard and read, even some of your leaders were concerned about the alcohol-based products being abused.

But let's just call a spade a spade. As far as you/your people are concerned, we(whites)/they(government) will never get it right.

I read a very interesting opinion a while ago, and I wondered why more isn't made of it. It was to the effect that first nations in fact don't (never did) 'own' this land, and shouldn't be demanding anything, treaties or no treaties. Why? Because, like us, their forefathers were settlers who immigrated from somewhere else too.

My Response:

Uh, nameless one? Do you really want to argue that First Nations have no right to this land because their forefathers settled here from somewhere else? All peoples from all nations settled their lands from somewhere else (except the very founding tribes of the human species who were themselves evolved from other pre-human groups). If you advance this opinion you are saying in essence that none of us has any right to our land.

Even without a written history of from where indigenous tribes originated and who (if anyone) their ancestors needed to battle in order to claim this land the fact is that THEY WERE ALREADY HERE when Europeans came to the Americas to resettle them. These First Nations possessed their lands as surely as any European nation owned theirs (although they mostly viewed this "ownership" to it in a completely different way).

This BS rationalization that you find "interesting" is untenable at it's very core and something only someone who wants to promote a racist agenda would dream up. It is bereft of reason and makes no logical sense, which is why no one has made anything of it and no one ever will.