I generally find most average people, no matter their race, religion, colour, creed or location to be very decent human beings.
It's when you put those same people into groups that they all become a problem because they'll be swayed by the loudest most obnoxious a-holes in the community.
I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we're gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.
Nothing is alive any more ... but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.
The thing is that ... WE .. caused the change ... the negative change that will severely affect all human lives now and into the future.
It's like we started the truck engine inside our enclosed garage and we are arguing with each other that we don't want to turn off the engine, no matter how lightheaded we are getting.
Earth for millions of years was a paradise with a stable climate ... and it would have stayed that way for millions of more years unless it got hit by an asteroid or major geo-tectonic events happened.
.... and instead of reputable journalists and independent organizations printing our news for us on the television .... ANYONE with a pulse and a grade ten level of writing skill can publish anything for anyone to read .... and the evolution after that will be that ANYONE with access to a computer can use Artificial Intelligence to publish an entire feature news story out of thin air promoting whatever idea, theory, belief or information they want regardless if it is true or not and no one will be able to tell the difference.
From the people I know in Native Canada, there is a lot of hostility against most of Canada and there will be for the foreseeable future .... because we have a lifetime of grievances against everything the government does to make us not trust anyone. Then there is the whole criminal Indigenous fraud and forgery that has been growing over the past few years (it isn't Pretendians, it isn't pretending ... it's outright forgery and criminal behaviour when what you are doing is basically creating an identity for financial or political gain by taking advantage of others). There is also the growing fraudulent Metis movement, especially in Ontario where people with a small percentage of Native blood are claiming left and right that they have rights to everything just like First Nation people when they have no basis for any claim. There is a real identified and historically documented Metis community in the prairie provinces .... but none in Ontario, especially in northern Ontario.
This is all on top of what the government constantly holds back from our communities and then blames us for not having anything and not doing anything.
The best way to ally with First Nations ... is to first identify us as 'First Nation' ... it's become political because the word 'Indigenous' has been co-opted by so many groups to encompass everyone and anyone (especially the Metis community) who wants to identify as First Nation.
Another way to support First Nations is to support and campaign for political parties that actually support First Nations and minority groups ... like the NDP ... less so the Liberals ... but definitely not the Conservatives.
The time to support First Nations is at the election booth .... it almost doesn't matter how you support First Nations after events like Bill 5 happen ... you can support them, join protests and share their grievances but that is almost too little too late ... we all have to stop these things from developing in the first place by not electing conservative right wing nut jobs into power.
Expect first nation protests everywhere and often in the next few years.
Like one chief in the north here said ... Chief Jennifer Constant in Mattagami FN near Timmins .... the government has put all resource development at risk because FNs won't stand for this. There has been years of negotiation and relationship building with FNs and industry, now all that good will is drying up. Now any company that wants to go anywhere near FN lands will have entire communities protesting, blocking and fighting them at every turn. Their projects all just got more expensive because they pissed off the people who live on the land.
You'd think they'd get the message .... when push comes to shove, and if they ever get into real authoritarian power again, the majority of the world will take up arms to fight them ... and there are more of us than there are of them and judging from the track record over the past few wars, they've seldom won (they have won in a few places but not many)
So these right wing nut jobs had families and ancestors that fought a global war to fight against fascists and nazis ...... so that their children and grandchildren can become fascists and nazis
Reminds me of a terrible factoid I read a long time ago .... they feed young calves they raise for veal a steady diet of cow's milk mixed with liquefied rendered cow blood and other bio fluids.
We might not have the matrix or dystopian futures yet ... but we sure are on our way to building one.
lol ... beautiful
but ... WALL-E-ST ... sounds better