WUN FEATHER -- Just because Justin Trudeau says us Canadians are racist, does not make it so. When people like him say stuff like that, the rest of us know he is a liar
I can't keep quiet about what I read yesterday on a Facebook group. Because I spent a great deal of my youth in the central interior of BC, I pay attention to the Prince George, Fraser Lake, Fort Fraser and Vanderhoof, BC, Facebook pages. Yesterday I read a comment that made my blood boil; someone said ... " Vanderhoof is still racist " The way they said it made it sound like all the people there are bigots and racists. I have reached the brink of my endurance when it comes to generalizations like that one. Way too many people speak matter-of- factly about groups of people, or communities, or sectors of society, and they lump them all in as one. I have lost track of the number of times that I have heard the following: " Indians are drunks " ... " Cops are corrupt " ... " The RCMP treats brown people bad " ... " Muslims are terrorists " ... “ White people are trash " And the list goes on and on. Wh...