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In reply to the discussion: Israeli forces manhandle EU diplomats, seize West Bank aid [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)106. Racism is enshrined in Canadian law, delrem.....
Tasha Kheiriddin: Aboriginal apartheid sentences Canadian natives to misery
When MP Charlie Angus posted video of the squalid living conditions in Attawapiskat, what struck me most were the images of children. A boy of ten, his face covered in a scabbing rash. A family of six, including four children under the age of five, living in an uninsulated tent for two years. A trio of small children, staring vacantly at the camera (while, incongruously, a big flat screen television played cartoons in the background).
This isnt the first documentation of the conditions in Attawapiskat. Another video posted in 2009 by supporters of Shannen Koostachin, an aboriginal girl who lost her life at 15 in a car accident, has children describing their health problems themselves: hair falling out, bleeding noses, puking.
As the doctor in Anguss video described, due to the squalid housing conditions on the reserve cold, mould, smoky air from wood burning stoves these kids suffer from frequent respiratory infections, ear infections, strep throat, and rashes. Due to overcrowding, neglect, and abuse, they suffer from mental health issues. Indian children commit suicide at a rate 5-7 times higher than the non-native population; for Inuit children, the rate is 11 times higher, one of the highest in the world.
Children living in such squalor in non-native environments would be likely removed from their families and placed in foster care. But the grim legacy of the residential school system, and the political incorrectness of jeopardizing the maintenance of their aboriginal heritage, has effectively taken this option off the table for native kids. The result is that they are left to suffer in places like Attawapiskat, Davis Inlet, and the like, while the rest of the country remains ignorant of their plight, until its hits crisis levels, or a politician takes a personal interest.
No one is advocating that First Nations children be subjected to the cruelties of residential schools, where previous generations were told to be ashamed of being Indian, deliberately turned against their culture, and subjected to sexual and physical abuse. But the reality is that by leaving them in environments like Attawapiskat, we are knowingly condemning them to a cycle of poverty, abuse and neglect, a cycle that no amount of tax dollars has been able or will be able to break.
When MP Charlie Angus posted video of the squalid living conditions in Attawapiskat, what struck me most were the images of children. A boy of ten, his face covered in a scabbing rash. A family of six, including four children under the age of five, living in an uninsulated tent for two years. A trio of small children, staring vacantly at the camera (while, incongruously, a big flat screen television played cartoons in the background).
This isnt the first documentation of the conditions in Attawapiskat. Another video posted in 2009 by supporters of Shannen Koostachin, an aboriginal girl who lost her life at 15 in a car accident, has children describing their health problems themselves: hair falling out, bleeding noses, puking.
As the doctor in Anguss video described, due to the squalid housing conditions on the reserve cold, mould, smoky air from wood burning stoves these kids suffer from frequent respiratory infections, ear infections, strep throat, and rashes. Due to overcrowding, neglect, and abuse, they suffer from mental health issues. Indian children commit suicide at a rate 5-7 times higher than the non-native population; for Inuit children, the rate is 11 times higher, one of the highest in the world.
Children living in such squalor in non-native environments would be likely removed from their families and placed in foster care. But the grim legacy of the residential school system, and the political incorrectness of jeopardizing the maintenance of their aboriginal heritage, has effectively taken this option off the table for native kids. The result is that they are left to suffer in places like Attawapiskat, Davis Inlet, and the like, while the rest of the country remains ignorant of their plight, until its hits crisis levels, or a politician takes a personal interest.
No one is advocating that First Nations children be subjected to the cruelties of residential schools, where previous generations were told to be ashamed of being Indian, deliberately turned against their culture, and subjected to sexual and physical abuse. But the reality is that by leaving them in environments like Attawapiskat, we are knowingly condemning them to a cycle of poverty, abuse and neglect, a cycle that no amount of tax dollars has been able or will be able to break.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/30/tasha-kheiriddin-aboriginal-apartheid-sentences-canadian-natives-to-misery/
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Your ISM friends were looking for a confrontation, not to give humanitarian supplies.
shira
Oct 2013
#179
Thanks from that it appears she pointed her fist at the IDF guy after she was yanked from the truck
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#19
That was political opinion, not scholarship. Read Fizzik's comments below the article....
shira
Sep 2013
#56
You guys are the ones who have problems with Zionism, a Jewish state, Jewish apartheid vs. Arabs....
shira
Sep 2013
#125
Oh, your issue is with Israelis - not Jews? Then which Arab Israelis do you have....
shira
Oct 2013
#136
now this is what the real environment looks like...for those who are interested...
pelsar
Sep 2013
#48
the soldiers hand isnt even near the trigger-hes holding the weapon via the magazine...duh
pelsar
Sep 2013
#71
So there's apartheid in virtually every nation, right? Canada, Australia, USA...
shira
Oct 2013
#163
Nope, just exposing a poser and her BS compassion abuse. Jimmy Carter stated....
shira
Oct 2013
#167
yes, yes, I know that the IDF enjoys using "overwhelming force" in the occupied territories.
delrem
Sep 2013
#102
Israeli and I have PMed. That's what PMing is *for*, it's part of DU. Deal with it, pelsar.
delrem
Sep 2013
#127
PM all you want....it was you who wrote about 'subjects that are not talked about"
pelsar
Oct 2013
#130
I'm not "tolerant" of the KKK, or whatever "X-supremacist" so-called "culture" you name.
delrem
Oct 2013
#135
it's not about distracting from not being allowed to give tents to recently homeless Palestinians
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#72
The issues with your version of events was obvious as soon as vireo became available
eyl
Sep 2013
#91
so you too posit that the French were simply tooling about the West Bank for no reason
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#92
There's seemingly an abundance of "accidents" when the IDF is around.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#205
eyl has been posting in IP way way way longer than you or most other people you see here now.
King_David
Sep 2013
#88
It goes against the Israeli doctrine of "Destroy the Palestinian people."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#171
It all boils down to brute-force colonialism at the expense of human rights and dignity.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#174
Dig in those heels as fast as you possibly can, Ober. Everything is rosy in your myopic world.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#178
Are you suggesting that the horrors of the Holocaust are currently being repeated by Israel?
oberliner
Oct 2013
#187
I'm saying that the term "never again" only seems to apply to a few while they blindly abuse others.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#188
And here comes the 3 ton straw dog, DUers, pushed out by pelsar to block out what Israel
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#191
Let me be clear, the Israelis aren't the victims in what they are doing in Palestine.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#194
"It all boils down to brute-force colonialism at the expense of human rights and dignity."
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#196
Oh, so Israelis (not Jews) of all people...should have learned from the Holocaust?
shira
Oct 2013
#203
I guess you have to be a Pat Buchanan or David Duke clone (or is that clown) to understand....
shira
Oct 2013
#180
Well I wouldn't know. They're more in line with repressive Israeli politics so perhaps
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2013
#184