So #Resign is trending in regard to the Crown–Indigenous Relations Min. Carolyn Bennett who stated in public that she will wear orange and STILL celebrate a Country "that MADE some very terrible mistakes."

Hooboy this might be a thread or just a couple of tweets but...

1/7 She stated that she will wear orange and still celebrate Canada in the very same statement that suggests that "mistakes were made".

Past tense.

@JustinTrudeau has already stated on Twitter that #SystemicRacism exists in Canada.

This is not past tense, it is ongoing.

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Read this article. It is well written and while genocide deniers will find fault in it, that is them. Like the media of those days and today, they have a Narrative that they want to protect.

The Narrative of their exceptionalism. Fear is what drove them, it still does.

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https://twitter.com/MichaelKannon/status/1407745912303198209

"...having a trio of all-encompassing negative qualities: depravity, innate inferiority and a stubborn resistance to progress."

This is what the media of the day said about indigenous People & the irony is not lost on me. The irony? Read on...

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It has been asked of me whether I see systemic racism in Canada and I do.

This will be a thread, "I see it..."

#IseeIt

1/17 I see it written into the language of The Indian Act, language from the 1800's which carries that mentality forward.

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