Thread by @sunnshiiny

That’s the reason I write. Collect information and analyze it. My health doesn’t permit me to do much more. But the cognitive ability is still intact and functions just fine.

I support LPC because they are the ONLY political party that acknowledges ALL indigenous peoples.

I have NEVER suggested FN narratives be silenced. I’ve merely recommended they be open and honest. I won’t tell you how to feel or think. Because I don’t believe that’s an ethical action. But you regularly tell others what they should think, as do members of your faction.

I’ve never delegitimated the option to not reconcile. That isn’t what I want, but it remains a valid option. For this fascist FN faction, that’s what reconciliation is. Regardless of what other indigenous peoples want. Dissent from that belief means exclusion from the in group.

There are so many people in your faction that are fuelled by hatred and rage. Including yourself.

That approach isn’t healing, compassionate, open to compromise or reconciliation or productive. To belong to your in group, you must adopt these unhealthy beliefs and values.

I refuse to become ruled by hate and contempt. I made that mistake and lost any opportunity to interact with my beloved brother before he died. Your required belief system is polarizing and uninviting. It doesn’t appeal to me or anyone else who walks a healing path.

You use threats and intimidation to control the membership of your faction. You instruct people to stay away from me and promise rejection if they don’t. I’ve been through hell and back. Several times. You can’t intimidate me. But you intimidate others who desire social supports.

I don’t care what the social costs are to speak truth to power. All the indigenous people who accept me for who I am will not abandon me. The others are dead. So you can’t take anything from me.

I will not stop using my political agency.

It isn’t racist to dissent from your belief system. It’s independent thought. Which my elders taught me cannot be stolen. But they were wrong. The social isolation we are all experiencing during COVid makes us more vulnerable to threats of exclusion from an in group.

So you can smear me, appeal to AFN Chief Archibald, or even the new MNC President Cassidy Caron. That won’t deter me. It’s well documented how pressure to exclude Métis has impacted Métis organizations. None of that politicization impacts my identity.

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But it does reveal your agenda.

You don’t have the power or permission to define who I am. Only I do. Who I am is NOT a reflection of blood quantum, community acceptance or access to resources. It’s how I identify to the world. And the only one who can determine that is me.

That’s true for every human being on earth.

So give it your best shot. There is nothing you can do that will deter me from telling the truth as supported by evidence and facts. Not MY opinion of the truth.

Just analysis based on behaviour, policy, history, traditional culture, & other verifiable & observable facts that contribute to Canadian politics conducted and the rhetoric used.

I don’t lie. It’s a personal commitment to remain grounded in reality. Lies hurt innocent people.

Truth hurts those who lie; to themselves, to their community, to their nation, to their country and to the electorate. Truth is not subjective. It’s supported by facts, behaviour, policy design, historical documents, and highly influenced by cultural values.

Truth is grounded in reality.

And let me advise you of my reality. You can’t touch me. I’ve spent my entire life walking a path of truth, no matter how painful it is. Because I’ve had a shit load of painful truth I’ve been forced to endure.

The only thing I have power and control to manipulate is my honesty, my integrity, my thoughts and my behaviour. Those are mine and mine alone. Only I control these characteristics. That’s reality. Take a guess where I learned those lessons.

That’s right, from my culture and community’s worldview. My spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical health is my responsibility. I take that quite seriously. It’s my way to remain connected to my heritage. And you can’t touch that.

Any indigenous person can recognize that’s the healing path, the red path. Because that’s where I’m going. Towards healing. Not hate. Not rage. Not greed. Not self interest. Not liberty. Not freedom.

Towards healing my intergenerational trauma. To be whole.

Something that was taken from me long before I was born. And from all other indigenous peoples across the globe. It’s our gift. That was never lost. No one can take away your well-being. That’s what reconciliation means to me.

Change starts from within. Social Change is the ability to enable healing across the community, the nation, the country, the globe. Same with climate change, economic change, political change.

To me, that’s reconciliation.

You don’t achieve a healing change with hate.

I have faith that those who seek peace, escape from ongoing trauma and balance understand this truth. I thank my Elder Elsie for teaching me that when I lost my brother.

Your political rhetoric is not healing. It’s self serving. It’s exclusionary. It’s hierarchical.

I merely point that out. If you want to change my behaviour, change your own first.

Stop lying, advancing hidden agendas, encouraging hate & division in the overall indigenous community and check your greed. Stop allowing politicos to exploit the wrongs of the past & present.

But I’m pretty sure you’re going to carry on doing what you do. Some people will continue to emulate your behaviour. I can’t control others’ choices. But I can inform people there is a different path, a less angry and more integrated way to approach reconciliation.

The choice of the path one walks is a personal decision. Truth and Reconciliation is difficult. Because our collective truth is all we need to reconcile. And that requires exposing ALL the lies.

That requires exposing Singh, Blackstock, & others on the progressive left who continue to lie about their motives, ambitions, their ultimate objectives and continue to exploit injustices committed against FN, Inuit, Métis & non status.

You will not deter me from that objective.

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