Letters to the Editor
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Thrasher
man, we actually are agreeing here you know? What I meant about race obscuring class is that the poor white male in the rural south has ALOT more in common with the poor black male in the urban north, but the rich (white) are way better served by the poor white man thinking he's somehow superior to the poor black man...race is used to obscure commonality, but we can't have the poor 1) realizing they're poor and 2) realizing that there are millions of people just like them now can we?
also - I was trying to offer an outsider's opinion on what I see to be the problem, as such I think I'm qualified to offer it. You're quite right, Canada has had issues with the treatment of Natives, but there are real, concrete institutional changes afoot (or rather were, before we elected our very own rightwing douchebag as Prime Minister..but fret not, he'll be gone shortly), things like Treaty Federalism (creating a whole new order of government) and self-government (being tested right now in Nunavut with the Inuit). Canada is at least trying to ameliorate the situation of our historically disadvantaged peoples (who still are better off than their American counterparts I might mention)