When former senator Lynn Beyak was vilified and drummed out of the Senate for saying that some children who went to residential schools actually benefitted from the education they received, I was perplexed.
I mean, Phil Fontaine and others said the same thing. And would they have achieved what they achieved had they not gone to school? Frankly, no. And why are they all called "survivors"? Most were actually graduates.
But now there is only one response to residential schools: They were evil, murderous places where native children were abused, murdered, buried and hidden in forgotten graves. This is nonsense. But this false narrative will continue because....well.....just because.
Manitoba premier Brian Pallister said that settlers came to Canada to build, not destroy. Boy, did he get it in the neck! His Indigenous minister resigned immediately and was replaced by a Metis who, in his first press conference, actually had the gall to say that residential schools were established to help natives learn to live in a wider society, which included settlers.
In the middle of his first press conference, the words hardly out of his mouth, the poor guy was interrupted and heckled by Wab Kinew, the leader Manitoba's official opposition, who berated him by saying everything about residential schools was evil.
This is why natives will never get anywhere. They "get their money for nothin' and their chicks for free" and thus have all the time in the world to focus on their one agenda: Repression.
Getting a little old.
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