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With respect to the National Métis group’s statement, I disagree with their political positioning. With the current election promises, polls, discussions, debates, and grandstanding, we as a people must do what is best for everyone, particularly for the most dispossessed people of our country, We must go beyond regional politics, race politics, historical politics, Métis politics and utilize this current opportunity to create real social, economic, cultural, and political change in this country.
The current Status quo only capitulates dominant society into the on-going destruction from capitalist expansionism, and the under-mindment of cultural and socially conscious groups who want a better world for the following generations. Am I an NDPer, Green partier? No, I am with the Creator, nothing more, and nothing less. Economic marginalization through lobbyists, political persuasion, grant and loan payoffs only will create economic divisions between the people who strive to obtain and define there material and capitalist worth. Are we to emulate what we desire materially or spiritually? I find I enjoy life more when I am content with a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and the love of others, than what popular culture pushes in our faces in the media, and educational and cultural apparatuses of this world system.
Be grateful for our breath, our life, and what we should strive to be, instead of what others want us to be. Miigweech, all my relations
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