Natives in no hurry

Don't worry dopry, Barry Artiste doesn't know anything about us either.  The only people concerned in this issue living in the past is the colonialist Canadian government that still employs a non-existant natural right to claim ownership of lands and people that do not belong to them.  The antiquated weight of that pro-European settler ethnocentric concept is still in play.  It is not for non-Aboriginals to decide on Indigenist concepts of human rights.  Especially since the Canadian nor American governments willing to admit, let alone accept responsibility for genocide via unlawful occupation, extermination and ethnic de-culturalisation. 

You can say "I know Indians better than real Indians" all you want Barry, it is still no excuse for my people being pushed aside for your benefit.  You stated no facts, just your Eurocentrically centred racist opinons which when stacked up next to a real Indians day to day life under European oppression mean little. 

And for the record, racist abuse towards the true people of these continents has never stopped.  Are we supposed to kiss your ass because White folks don't shoot us on sight as settlers did in teh good old, bad old days?  Were the residential schools decades ago?  Or was the abuse of our young people, who still bear the scars of genocide the sordid imagination of "angry" Indians?  Only a revisionist bigot would say that the abuses against indigenous people has ended.  If you made these same remarks in reference to Jews and their genocide in teh middle of the last century, you would be labeled a hater.  But to make such comments about and to Indians is apparently ok.  Abuse only counts if the victims are either White, or of political use to the White establishment.  Apart from that, very few within the settler population give a damn about reminders of European murder and colonialisation. 

You are in no moral position to suggest that I "let it go."  No White person has that moral authority in a land where technically, they do not belong.  Deal with your issues facing up your own murderous collective history and save the patronizing paternalism for someone intimidated by White racism.  I for one am not. 

- The Angryindian

BTW, you have no idea where I have been, lived or under what conditions.  Unless you have walked as an Indian in Indian skin an alien in your own ancestral lands, you have no concept of what being Aboriginal is.  And to attempt to explain away your bigotry by raising a residential pedigree in Indian Country only intensifies the volume of your racism, not dismisses it. 

Save the patronizing "someone certainly has anger issues" diversion for someone else.  Your ignorance of North American Aboriginal slavery from Columbus onward is telling, especially since no credible, (by Eurocentric standards) historian or scholar accepts the White supremacist myth that the Irish were sold into slavery in the Americas.  While you state that the Irish were not "sold" in North America, you  clearly make a moral connection to non-European slavery where none exists.  Indentured servitude is just that, indentured.  Anti-Irish bigotry in the Americas was a holdover from Europe that eventually dissapated during reconstruction when the White minority in the South decided to redefine the Irish as "White", especially after the Irish adopted Anglo-Saxon racial attitudes.  I actually read "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev.  Have you?

From Wikipedia:

"An indentured servant (or in the U.S. bonded laborer) is a labourer under contract
to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, usually four to
seven years, to pay off a passage to a new country or home. Typically
the employers provided little if any monetary remuneration; however,
they were responsible for accommodation, food, other essentials, and
training. Upon completion of the term of the contract the labourer
sometimes received a lump sum payment such as a parcel of land or tools
and was free to farm or take up trade of his or her own.

The term comes from the medieval English "indenture of retainer" — a
contract written in duplicate on the same sheet, with the copies
separated by cutting along a jagged (toothed, hence the term "indenture") line so that the teeth of the two parts could later be refitted to confirm authenticity.

And here is the kicker if you will:

Indentured servitude is not identical with involuntary servitude and slavery." 

And so what if you are mixed.  Is that supposed to mean that it is impossible for you to be a pro-White power reactionary bigot?  And frankly, I find it quite astounding that all of a sudden you mention a Aboriginal ethnic background when you never said anything about it before.  This is another in a long line of typical defense measures regulary employed by racists to fend off changes of racism and Europocentric bias, despite the fact that their pro-European racist commentary directly contradicts said claims to innocence.  You are not the first White man to fall back on a mysteriously dormant non-European ethnic identification when challenged on their ethnic bigotries.  And like I said earlier, so what if you are mixed?  There were handfulls of European Jews who worked with the Nazis as well.  Take a long hard look at director Laurence Jarvik's penetrating documentary "Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die" for more on this phenomenon or "Hitler's Jewish Soldier's" by Brian Mark Rigg.  The history of Aboriginal traitors who collaborated with the settlers in conquering their own nations is extremely well documented.  So if you are telling the truth about your pedigree, you are simply continuing an age-old practise of colonialist -driven self-destruction.  That is, if you really are Indian.