racism
Coming to Canada I continually notice how much to me the 'black problem' in the USA mirrors the 'Indian problem' in Canada. Non-problems, except that powers that be want the people to be gone for good. Maybe I view this parallel because I come from the East Coast where the Native population is not as large nor as visible as out in the midwest or west of the USA. Maybe racism simply functions in similar ways no matter where it occurs. Somehow the very beginning of this song by Tupac, about the breaking up of families, made me think of the ways Native women are incarcerated more than other women, how alcoholicism runs rampant and how strong some people truly are to continue against all the blocks pushed upon them by a dominant culture that uses its power to divide and oppress.http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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