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196. People seem to forget he said a lot more than the 'n' word. Why is that? It looked like he coulda been at a Klan rally!

Posted at 12:51PM on Dec 4th 2006 by Tiffany

197. Kartikêya%u2019

Lvûtsu a%u2019

Taktúani ixiúsxaq gaúalukdlö%u2019 ugúigaa auabûmiuq ikayullapûiabfa qanubviitchuq kamúanaqtuq tsugasawodv ahyalosgi galvûadi selah nudanvdvna! Nkêêz hat'ûgha isdzán. bésh dlö' ha'ándáh di£hi£. Tágeanau Nadie!

iúsxaq aúadlö%u2019 ahyalosgi danvdvn hat'ûgha bûmi kamúanaqtuq tsugasawodv. Nkêêz amúanaqtu iúsxaqgaú dlö'ha'ádáh úanaqtuq. Yalosgi uabûmiu kamúanaqtuq kayullapû bésh dlö'abûmi ándáhdi£hi Kartikêya!

Poppa

You write such depraved things. I care not to reiterate them by quoting them.

But you are accurate she can%u2019t write or speak English. She explains that, along with the fact that her great-grand-son has read these threads. He became upset and was so distressed he was in temper she can%u2019t explain. She asked him why and he began to read the threads to her. She became extraordinarily sad and tried to assist her great-grand-son in understanding hatred and how to release his pain to his guide.

She also prays that Selah and I realize we are sisters in this life and will be in another so we should try to end our differences. In addition she articulates so many moons have passed that she can%u2019t remember her age but remembers the Great War (WW1) along the way she has learned much about tolerance and hatred She asks me to recite a prayer she references. She requests that I write it in English for everyone to understand. I shall do so now:

Great Spirit, I pray to you.
Lift my spirit.
Raise me to the heights,
High enough that I may
Look down on the great mountain.
Let me look down into the
Reflections of the sacred lake.
Let my spirit be gathered by the four winds. Let the four winds teach to me.
May the white in me learn compassion.
May the red in me learn truth.
May the yellow in me learn wisdom.
May the black in me learn humility.
Let the east wind teach me
New light and new beginnings.
Let the south wind teach me
Sensitivity and the ways of the heart.
Let the west wind teach me
To listen to the thunder and go within.
Let the north wind teach me
Freedom from emotion and releasment.
Give me the strength and courage to
Follow the sacred wheel honestly.
I am he whose thoughts walk on the wind. Hear my prayer.

I would like to add two footnotes for those who no nothing about our culture the colors mentioned in the prayer have nothing to do with race, so please do not assume such. What one may perceive as one word such as "ikayullapûiabfa" is roughly translated into eight English words.

Marlee

You write to me%u2026

%u201CI also thought it was cool you saying something to another Indian because he said racist things. If only all races would speak up to each other then maybe we would be getting somewhere.%u201D

I really like your name Marlee, I am expecting another child and I am going to suggest it to my husband. Does it have a meaning? Onto your comment to me, I agree we need to speak out and hope to put an end to all forms of racism. Your views I have read are wise for someone so young. I appreciate your position, acceptance and your spot on objectivity for all races and nationalities.

Janie

Please accept my condolences for the dreadful thing that happened to you. I shall remember you in my prayers.

Selah

I do believe we have gone over everything we can. We are only going in circles and I will not allow myself to be pulled into the cycle of hate any longer. I wish you well in all that comes your way.

Nadie

Itskit, omitaa! Itskit! Kîshasthwa oma' miitseiuw ta' nanaehaeta' kaskitewâw tse haeta'.

Posted at 7:59PM on Dec 4th 2006 by Nadie

198. Marlee,

I didn't mean that YOU spew out slurs, I meant society in general. If we keep our mouths shut here, it is because we don't have the same problems to begin with and we don't believe slurs help the situation.

neutral

Posted at 6:54PM on Dec 4th 2006 by neutral

199. Marlee,

I am not upset about your posting. I think I wasn't that clear and it led to some misunderstanding.

I am not saying that only the poor are racists. Far from it. My boyfriend is a lawyer who lives in Southern California and he is as right wing and bigoted as the day is long. He sounds off about Mexicans and blacks and welfare. I point out that if the poor, be they black, white, Mexican or whatever, were provided with a better education from a young age, better healthcare, and higher wages when they did work, that there would be more incentive to work, less feelings of helplessness, less anger and all in all a better society.

Poppa has issues only a team of shrinks could decipher, but socio-economic disparity has played a crucial role.

I am introducing one factor, not THE factor.

We are not biased against Americans. WE LOVE AMERICANS, but we do notice problems. You don't need a Canadian flag here.

It's a little late for coffee, but thanks for the offer.

BTW, I was never aware that slaves were sent anywhere. I lack knowledge of Canadian history.

Posted at 7:09PM on Dec 4th 2006 by neutral

200. For Marlee,

I didn't mean you have to wear a Canadian flag when you come to Canada. Americans themselves have chosen to wear our flag when travelling to foreign countries and they have been doing this for years. Many foreign countries view America as an exploitive country, both in terms of it's domestic politics, but also it's foreign policy.

neutral

Posted at 7:19PM on Dec 4th 2006 by neutral

201. Menteur! Le Canada's pauvre!!!!!!!!! Raciste Le Canada!!!!



Don't Ignore UN Committee Recommendations on Human Rights, Canadian NGOs say

May 22, 2006

The Canadian government cannot ignore the recommendations of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a network of Canadian non-governmental organizations, said.
The UN human rights body released its Concluding Observations on its review of Canada ’s record in implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, one of the key United Nations human rights treaties it has signed.

The Committee found that despite Canada ’s economic prosperity, 11.2 percent of its population still lived in poverty in 2004. The Committee expressed particular concern that poverty rates remain very high among disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups such as Aboriginal peoples, African-Canadians, immigrants, persons with disabilities, youth, women and single mothers. The Committee noted with concern that in most provinces and territories, social assistance rates are lower now than a decade ago.

The Committee recommended Canada “fully abide by its obligations� under the Covenant and “take all possible measures to the maximum of its available resources to ensure the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights for all.� In particular it recommended that Canada establish social assistance at levels which ensure the realization of an adequate standard of living, ensure minimum wages are increased throughout Canada , ensure access to employment insurance benefits, and address the issue of food insecurity and hunger, homelessness and inadequate housing as a national emergency.

The Committee also expressed a number of particular concerns about ways in which the rights of First Nations and Aboriginal peoples are being violated and called on Canada to re-examine its policies and practices towards the inherent rights and titles of Aboriginal peoples. It also recommended the resumption of negotiations with the Lubicon Lake Band in Alberta .

The Committee was critical of Canadian governments for treating rights such as the right to adequate social assistance or the right to adequate healthcare as "principles and programmatic objectives rather than legal obligations". It drew attention to the "lack of effective enforcement mechanisms for these rights" and "the practice of governments to urge upon their courts an interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms denying protection of Covenant rights."

The Committee identified the controversial decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on healthcare in the Chaoulli case for concern, The decision has been widely criticized for undermining the universal right to adequate healthcare in Canada regardless of ability to pay.


“As a new member of the UN Human Rights Council, Canada needs to improve its own human rights record before it can criticize the human rights record of other countries with any integrity,� the NGO network said. When seeking a seat on the new Human Rights Council , Canada had pledged to “give serious consideration to the recommendations of UN treaty bodies.� Yet the Committee noted that, “most of its 1993 and 1998 recommendations have not been implemented,� and strongly reiterated its call for more effective follow-up to the recommendations in this report.
The data reveals that inspite of efforts by Blacks to position themselves for success, they are consistently stonewalled in a society unwilling to allow them equal access to opportunities. It shows that:

*Blacks, on average, earn substantially less money than other Canadians
*Blacks are seriously under represented in higher paying jobs and senior management positions
*Blacks are less likely to be self-employed or supported by investment
160,000 Blacks lived in poverty in 1991 (31 per cent of the Black population - twice the rate of the Canadian population)
*Four in ten Black children lived under the poverty line in 1991 as compared to one in six in the wider population



The network of Canadian non-governmental organizations are calling on the parliamentary Standing Committees on Human Resources and Social Development and the Justice and Human Rights Committee to review the Concluding Observations and get answers from the government on how they plan to implement the recommendations of this UN Committee.
The full text of Concluding Observations from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights can be found on the UN High Commission for Human Rights web site at:

http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/docs/E.C.12.CAN.CO.5.pdf






We Can Make Child Poverty History in Canada
By Dennis Howlett

On November 24, 1989,

Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution stating that: “This House seeks to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000.�
More than fifteen years later, and five years after the deadline of 2000, what has happened?

• One in six Canadian children is poor.
• Canada’s child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland.
• Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.


These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada’s children. What makes the persistence of child poverty all the more disturbing is that Canada is a rich country, a country that ranked fourth in the world on the 2004 UN Human Development Index.

But in the midst of wealth, almost 5 million Canadians live in poverty. Poverty is increasing for youth, workers, young families and immigrant and visible minority groups. Poverty among Aboriginal groups remains appallingly high both on and off reserve. In fact, if the statistics for Canadian Aboriginal people were viewed separately from those of the rest of the country, Canada’s Aboriginal people would slip to 78 th on the UN Human Development Index – the ranking currently held by Kazakhstan.

Canada needs to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction globally, but if we are to have any integrity we also need to work at achieving poverty reduction goals at home. The national platform of the Make Poverty History campaign in Canada puts forward achievable demands that would make a significant contribution to “making poverty history� – globally and in Canada.

• One in six Canadian children is poor.
• Canada’s child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland.
• Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.

Posted at 11:53PM on Dec 4th 2006 by by Aboriginal History in Canada

202. Menteur! Le Canada's pauvre!!!!!!!!! Raciste Le Canada!!!!

These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada’s children. What makes the persistence of child poverty all the more disturbing is that Canada is a rich country, a country that ranked fourth in the world on the 2004 UN Human Development Index.

But in the midst of wealth, almost 5 million Canadians live in poverty. Poverty is increasing for youth, workers, young families and immigrant and visible minority groups. Poverty among Aboriginal groups remains appallingly high both on and off reserve.

In fact, if the statistics for Canadian Aboriginal people were viewed separately from those of the rest of the country, Canada’s Aboriginal people would slip to 78 th on the UN Human Development Index – the ranking currently held by Kazakhstan.

Posted at 12:13AM on Dec 5th 2006 by Aboriginal History in Canada

203. We Can Make Child Poverty History in Canada
By Dennis Howlett

On November 24, 1989, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution stating that: “This House seeks to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000.�

More than fifteen years later, and five years after the deadline of 2000, what has happened?

• One in six Canadian children is poor.
• Canada’s child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland.
• Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.


These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada’s children. What makes the persistence of child poverty all the more disturbing is that Canada is a rich country, a country that ranked fourth in the world on the 2004 UN Human Development Index.

But in the midst of wealth, almost 5 million Canadians live in poverty. Poverty is increasing for youth, workers, young families and immigrant and visible minority groups. Poverty among Aboriginal groups remains appallingly high both on and off reserve. In fact, if the statistics for Canadian Aboriginal people were viewed separately from those of the rest of the country, Canada’s Aboriginal people would slip to 78 th on the UN Human Development Index – the ranking currently held by Kazakhstan.

Canada needs to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction globally, but if we are to have any integrity we also need to work at achieving poverty reduction goals at home. The national platform of the Make Poverty History campaign in Canada puts forward achievable demands that would make a significant contribution to “making poverty history� – globally and in Canada.

• One in six Canadian children is poor.
• Canada’s child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland.
• Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.

Posted at 11:59PM on Dec 4th 2006 by Aboriginal History in Canada

204. Neutral keeps on sticking her foot in her mouth, like the taste of leather? LMFAO at no racism, no poor among blacks and aboriginal's. Socio-economic equality my arse!

Posted at 12:14AM on Dec 5th 2006 by Aaron

205.
Nadie -

I can appreciate you coming to me respectfully at this point. As well, I hope you understand my anger at being misunderstood, and being approached as if I were on the level with those I was confronting. I agree that as women of color, our beef should not be with each other. More than that I am also a praying woman, and I am also expecting a child (4 months along) - if nothing more, we have that in common. Please understand that while I bear no remorse for speaking my mind, my words were NEVER meant as insult, just as a means of comparison and shedding light on a way of thinking that many had not come to on their own. Perhaps that was why I'm so vehement in defending myself when my examples become misconstrued - I felt that by stating that many (never said ALL! *grin*) Native Americans have abused alcohol due to their feelings of depression and grief over what happened to their culture, I was also acknowledging the bitter reality of what they were put through. Many people (particularly non-minorities) tend to have a "GET OVER IT!" attitude - and that's fine on one level. However, on another, when you lose sight of the past - when you fail to remember your history - you lose sight of your future, and I encourage people of all races to know your heritage. MANY (again, not ALL *grin*) African-Americans struggle DAILY to get ahead despite the collective memory of what has happened in our past, and the remnants of hatred that remain (for a reminder, see any message board pertaining to race in any way on this site). But one thing we cannot do, is act like this racial tension will dissolve itself and go away without dialogue. We were both wrong to present our views with such aggression, firing our words at each other like snipers, but I think that speaks more to human nature than to our respective races, and it still gives us a place to grow from.

Psalms 62:8.

~ Selah

Posted at 12:39AM on Dec 5th 2006 by Selah

206. LOL soounds like marle was right on canadians just shove their heads in the sand and pretend theres no poverty and racism what a wanker.y'all thik ur so much better then us down here but u have just as many problems
. whats even funnier is in canada makes it so u have to pay big bucks to get in and they screen applicants out the ying-yang before even saying yes. hello wake up call Neutral u stil don't know that canada shipped the slaves to freetown!?!?!?!?! LOLOLOLing all the way to work. i hope u pull ur head out soon and stop acting soooo much better then the US.

Posted at 2:36AM on Dec 5th 2006 by Anything BUT Neutral LMAO

207. For everyone,

There are always articles written about child poverty anywhere in the world. This is what bureaucrats do. Notice how we are being compared to Scandinavian countries and not the U.S. Here are some recent facts comparing Canada the the States, which is what we are doing here.

International scholastic scoring on highschool students.

Canada ranked 4th, U.S. ranked 19th. 2004, but it is pretty much the same every year, according to the facts.

Overall standard of living, 2006!!!
Canada ranked 6th, U.S. ranked 8th

Stats re healthcare. Comparison of the 5 wealthiest countries. 2005
Healthcare is on par, but the U.S. pays twice as much as anyone else.

Poverty:

It costs 25% less to live in a major Canadian city than it does to live in an American city. 2004

Minimum wage in U.S. $5.15/hr, Canada $7.15/hr (and going up by 2007 to $9.00) 2006

Crime Rates. U.S is 5 times higher per capita. 2005

General observation. A Canadian housing project looks like luxury compared to an American ghetto.

"Blacks live in poverty and so do the aboriginals?"
Where do they prosper? Mars? Of course there are always exceptions, but I can't think of any country where the majority of blacks or aboriginals live in middle class neighborhoods.

The article you pulled is dumb. You should see the stats on U.S. poverty.

Whether I know about where slaves were sent isn't really that important is 2006. I know what is going on here now. Why so hung up on ancient history?

Posted at 7:32AM on Dec 5th 2006 by neutral

208. Along the same lines.

Canadian highschool students rank 4th in scholastic testing in the world. That coupled with the fact that 47% of our population are university educated makes us the most educated population in the world. We have a much better system for it than anyone, let alone the U.S, which is far below most of the industrialized world.

Canada is a young country and is upwardly mobile. The U.S. has been steadily declining for years, despite it's age. See current dollar rates.

As for immigrants not rising to management levels that quickly, or course they don't. We take in millions of them every year and they lack language skills and Canadian experience. We then send them to school, paid by the taxpayer.

We are the second highest taxed nation in the world, but when the experts have analized the data, they found that in terms of what we get back for our tax dollar, we ranked first.

And to however it was on here that said that we have just as many problems as the Americans. I hope you make it to work safely and manage to dodge the firing bullets.

I could go on and on, but you fail to see the decay around you, and fail to be able to decipher and analize facts well, too.

Neutral, and patient

Posted at 9:06AM on Dec 5th 2006 by neutral

209. i'm not sure i really understand the idea of "child poverty". last time i checked, most kids don't work, and if they do, it's usually in some sweat shop, and illegal. how is a child in any way accountable for being poor?

as far as poppa civilize needing therapy, sure, but i still don't understand giving him the excuse that its socio-economic, and that's why he's a racist. he's a racist because he's a racist. money does not solve problems. look at rodney king. he got all kinds of money after his beating, and still screwed up.

my opinion on canada, probably naive, but here goes. canada does not have to spend near the money that the usa has to spend on national defense or military. this is because they know they are protected by the usa. therefore, they can use this money on social issues instead. but from what i have read and heard their taxes are 10 times worse than the usa. this is because of their "free" health care. as far as i know, nothing is free except love. so the money has to come from somewhere. ala, taxpayers.

Posted at 1:57PM on Dec 5th 2006 by greg

210. Greg,
my opinion on canada, probably naive, but here goes. canada does not have to spend near the money that the usa has to spend on national defense or military. this is because they know they are protected by the usa. therefore, they can use this money on social issues instead. but from what i have read and heard their taxes are 10 times worse than the usa. this is because of their "free" health care. as far as i know, nothing is free except love. so the money has to come from somewhere. ala, taxpayers.

Healthcare is paid through taxation, ligour, cigarettes, lotteries, all kinds of sources, but the money spent totals half as much as you spend. This is because of your insurance companies taking such a huge slice. Recently the experts conducted studies on the 5 wealthiest countries in the world and found that the healthcare was prettty much the same in all 5, but that the U.S. was paying twice as much as anyone else.

I have given facts, and I know the truth hurts. I am not trying to hurt anyone, but it is time to stop kidding yourselves. Don't be so defensive. Read more and learn from others. You know you need to change things, and you're not kidding anyone except yourselves, so don't even try.

We do think you spend too much on self defense. No argument there. How goes it in Iraq? BTW, you couldn't protect us from terrorists. No one can protect themselves from terrorists. They are multiplying by the minute. Sure most Christian nations will be terrorized to some extent. It goes hand in hand with Islamic mumbo, jumbo. Us too, but wait and see what they have in store for you. You will be much too preoccupied fighting them within America to even consider helping anyone else. You won't have much more to give at the end of the day. We will be taking you in as refugees and housing and feeding you and giving you some nice clean water as well.

I don't think you are going to need to protect Canada much. It seems to me that you are the target for many nations. Are you starting to get along with North Korea? Are you and the Europeans on speaking terms again? How about your buddies in Islam? Seems to me you need all the friends you can get, so I wouldn't go around pissing off Canadians too much. Especially when they are trying to help you out of your hole.

Did you find anything in Iraq yet? Any weapons of mass destruction? Anything at all? Not that I am against the war in Iraq. At the end of the day it will be worth it, but your government sure managed to pull the wool over your eyes, didn't they? Or maybe you still believe there are weapons of mass destruction there.

I'm sorry that you have been brought up to believe that you live in such a great place. Your media is powerful. Maybe you should travel more and read more and talk less. Again, I can't say enough about an educated population, but then I am Canadian and I believe that being smart and having an intelligent population pays off in the end.

You can still wear our flags, we don't mind.

Sorry to all that the facts are so painful.

neutral

Posted at 6:14PM on Dec 5th 2006 by neutral