She GETS IT!
Listen to this woman. Don’t listen to people who demand everything get fixed by next week. Listen to the people who have been wronged for generations.
Acknowledge their pain.
Acknowledge their humanity.
Acknowledge their anger.
Acknowledge their resentment.
Listen to this woman. Don’t listen to people who demand everything get fixed by next week. Listen to the people who have been wronged for generations.
Acknowledge their pain.
Acknowledge their humanity.
Acknowledge their anger.
Acknowledge their resentment.
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That’s it. That’s your responsibility.
Listen.
It’s not time for you to be heard. It’s not time for you to virtue signal. It’s not time for you to get comfort for your shock and dismay.
It’s our time. We’re the ones almost wiped out from policies meant to exterminate us.
Listen.
It’s not time for you to be heard. It’s not time for you to virtue signal. It’s not time for you to get comfort for your shock and dismay.
It’s our time. We’re the ones almost wiped out from policies meant to exterminate us.
By settlers.
Settlers who profited from our pain. Profited from our deaths. Profited from our suffering.
This isn’t your pain. It’s ours. You listen. We get to talk now.
Settlers who profited from our pain. Profited from our deaths. Profited from our suffering.
This isn’t your pain. It’s ours. You listen. We get to talk now.
Stop trying to exculpate yourself if you’re a settler.
Whether you realized it or not, you’ve been complicit in genocide.
Process that. Acknowledge it.
Accept responsibility for it.
Whether you realized it or not, you’ve been complicit in genocide.
Process that. Acknowledge it.
Accept responsibility for it.
You don’t get to tell the indigenous community what they need, what will fix this, how we move forward.
You get to acknowledge what happened, what is still happening and the suffering so many experience daily.
You get to acknowledge what happened, what is still happening and the suffering so many experience daily.
Some indigenous people are sad. Some are angry, some are even vengeful.
We need to heal. And every individual indigenous person is at their own pace and stage of healing.
We need to heal. And every individual indigenous person is at their own pace and stage of healing.
Some want to dismantle Canada and banish every settler. Some want to live together in peace as equals. Some want restitution. Some want all the land back.
Every one has their own definition of reconciliation.
We’re not good.
And we won’t be for some time.
Every one has their own definition of reconciliation.
We’re not good.
And we won’t be for some time.
You need to figure out a way to live with that discomfort.
It’s not up to the indigenous community to comfort you for feeling bad about trying to exterminate us.
That is your own responsibility.
It’s not up to the indigenous community to comfort you for feeling bad about trying to exterminate us.
That is your own responsibility.
This is not going to be easy, pleasant or quick.
Intergenerational trauma is going to take time and continued effort to resolve.
It isn’t about a political party. It’s about us having the ability to speak our truth. And remake ourselves after almost being destroyed.
Intergenerational trauma is going to take time and continued effort to resolve.
It isn’t about a political party. It’s about us having the ability to speak our truth. And remake ourselves after almost being destroyed.
Settlers just need to get out of the way. And learn how to cope with their own culpability in genocide.
That’s reconciliation:
settlers becoming trustworthy enough to reestablish a relationship with indigenous people.
That’s reconciliation:
settlers becoming trustworthy enough to reestablish a relationship with indigenous people.
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