For the past two years we have suffered through yet another theatre performance of truth and reconciliation hearings by "first nations" people still banging on about residential schools. Thank G-d it's finally over! Please. One grandmother said she could not parent her children properly because of abuse. "They didn't know how to be good parents to their own kids because of what I went through and my grandchildren don't know how to react because they never went through it."
Yeah, that's right. They haven't gone through it so why ask them to re-live your mess? Can't anyone move on, or is the residential school experience just an excuse to live and parent badly? Many of us have been raped or sexually assaulted, but we don't dump it on our children. One can choose to be a lifelong victim, or one can pull oneself up by one's boot straps and become "normal".
A scientist and math wizard who lived in his own world, my late father always said, "If you act normal, you'll be normal."
Exactly. My great-grandmother was a Mohawk from Tyendinaga, but I am still so sick of it.
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