why do I care so much about #pretendians ? cause i have had a rough life. i was stolen from my family & people at birth. i always looked Indigenous. but i never met a Native person raised in our culture until i was an adult. i was raised with only whites. i hated it.
i experienced so much white supremacy &also violence. it was rough growing up in rural white canada being me in the 70s. when i found my family i realized they too were victims of white supremacy. my mother was in residential school. she fled canada cause they kept taking us.
i still don't really have much family. many of my biological family are americans. we are@nothing alike. so white supremacy destroyed my family. i cant speak my language. i never had kids. i didn't want to pass on the trauma.
so i speak against pretendians because i see they come from white privilege and they are taking some of the best jobs and opportunities from us! when they directly benefited from ouroppression.
i graduated from u of t with a degree in equity studies- why did I do that? cause i needed to learn why white people hated me so much.
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