The native file......again

See, this is just another example of how women constantly shoot themselves in the foot (or is that "feet"?)  Anyway, the first woman to be elected to the House from Nunavut, also had an "Annime Paul" hissy fit and quit because she claimed the place was racist and hostile.  

Well, duh!  Of course it's hostile if you're in opposition.  That's the way the Westminster model works.  You didn't really think you were entering a place of group hugs, did you?!  Having worked for a number of ministers, I know politics is a killing ground and it takes no prisoners.  It's not for a starry-eyed 23-year-old.  But you were elected by people who wanted you to represent them and you have failed to do that.  

"I've had security jog after me down hallways, nearly put their hands on me and racial (sic) profile me," Mumilaaq Qaqqaq said in the House on Tuesday."  Hey, that's their job!  "It took a long time for me to realize how hard and how much I was working and trying to push against a system so much, so intensely that ultimately — in every way shape or form — it was still to work against the people I represent and to work against me."

Of course, that's politics!  Qaqqaq didn't hide why she took two leaves from office, either.  The first was to deal with depression and burnout, which left her absent for eight weeks.   

She said she wasn't sure what was next, but for now, she was enjoying the little things, such as beading.  She also just sanded and restained her deck.  Really?!  Get serious. 

"I've shown youth and Indigenous people that we can be in places, even if we don't feel like they're made for us," Qaqqaq said.  Except you quit.  Her decision is yet another example of how many women can't take political blood sport and reinforce the belief that has dogged so many of us forever and one against which women of my cohort have been fighting our entire careers.  Instead of lauding this young women, they should be questioning why she has let them down.   

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And here's another example of what I have blogged about so often.  Parents blaming the child welfare system, when they should really be asking themselves why their kids had to be taken into care in the first place.  So entrenched is the native attitude that the white culture is always to blame, this thought would not even occur to them.