Racism is not owed by any particular race, but by the systemic ideologues, who define how we live and die in a democratic society. As a Native person, don't bother telling me something we as Canadian Indigenous people already know when it comes to how the judicial, economic, cultural, and political systems attempts to contain us as a people.
For example, I left Edmonton in 1980 as a young native man to realize my potential in life instead of settling with where the foster parent system and society wanted us young "Indians" The powers to be, societal and judicial institutions at the time only seen us (Indians) as drunks, dead or just jailbirds.
Twenty Six years later, my twin brother, who now lives in Edmonton and is a lawyer adamantly told me in the fall of 2005, that the police, prosecutors, and judges still see Native people as drunks, dead or just jailbirds. From recent reports regarding the current status of native people living and dying in Canada, nothing has changed in the 26 years, since I moved from Edmonton to Vancouver for those very reasons, my brother mentioned in 2005. The small societal advancements that did happen since then is the result of the work of our Indigenous activists and warriors, plus some of our community society and business leaders, and the mercy and works of truly good non-native people, who felt that the apartheid two tier system of life in Canada is unacceptable.
