Indigenous people are definitely overrepresented in the criminal justice system and jails/prisons -- but why is that? We know that those community have higher levels of poverty, addiction, mental-health issues and more challenges, and we also know that those issues flow directly from the historical traumas inflicted on Indigenous peoples by colonial culture. The indignities and atrocities of such historical practices as residential schools and the '60s Scoop are still felt after generations.
These are established facts. In this day and age, suggesting there's an overemphasis on those abuses and on "drumming and dancing" is incredibly ignorant. The notion that "pot shops" are the problem casts a blind eye that this has been going on long before such retail outlets ever popped up.
Indigenous people are definitely overrepresented in the criminal justice system and jails/prisons -- but why is that? We know that those community have higher levels of poverty, addiction, mental-health issues and more challenges, and we also know that those issues flow directly from the historical traumas inflicted on Indigenous peoples by colonial culture. The indignities and atrocities of such historical practices as residential schools and the '60s Scoop are still felt after generations.
These are established facts. In this day and age, suggesting there's an overemphasis on those abuses and on "drumming and dancing" is incredibly ignorant. The notion that "pot shops" are the problem casts a blind eye that this has been going on long before such retail outlets ever popped up.
10 years for killing someone. Crazy and he will be out before the 10 years is up.