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Date Posted: 04:25:02 07/26/06 Wed
Author: Rhonda K
Author Host/IP: d207-216-214-186.bchsia.telus.net / 207.216.214.186
Subject: OK, this is political..and somewhat racist...so don't get angry

I am Canadian...ok, don't hate me..we are all peace loving hippies that love our beer and wear touques...NOT!

Anyway...I got an email...about the evacuation of lebananese canadians from Lebanon...the whining, the complaints that we did not do enough for the "comfort" of our civilians...while they were being "RESCUED"...

I was so pissed off...when I was watching the news...that I wanted to phone my premier...but I didn't..my views...were my views...

I am Native...Canadian...my ancestors..are Native...Canadian, we expect to be treated as civilians..and we still are not! I grew up being called a Squaw...a drunk, a lazy illiterate uneducated animal...I was a heathen...not christian, not god fearing...and then..I hear these people say they had no WATER on board the ship! OMG..go home, stay there and listen to the bombs!

I have a history...of being molested...my father was molested as a child in the residential schools...that were God Fearing and were to give him Education and Christianity! My mother and grandfather were not allowed to eat in a restaurant...to get out of the cold. My mother and her sisters...and thousands others..were not allowed to practice their "spiritual beliefs" and were not allowed to speak their language...on the RESERVES! We were put into "Camps" literally told what to do, what to say...and how to act...and now...we still live in those "camps" and people come to Canada...are treated better than us...and they complain that we are racist!

Anger, Frustration...and Hate that I still have these thoughts and memories!!!! Will my world ever be "colorless", I looked at my daughter today and still, I think...thank goodness..she looks WHITE..it will be easier for her...than it was ever for me! I am only 42 years of age...and I still battle with these "Issues"...I talked to my mom today...and a tourist...stopped to talk to her...and he talked to her like she was an idiot...
She was on the dock, mending a net...and he talked slowly and with emphasis...like she would not understand...she looked at him, and asked if he was ok!
We laughed...but it is not funny...
Anyway, this is a rant...don't reply...just needed to get it out of me!
MUH
Rhonda

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