msfirstnations

Dear mr poor misguided bigoted geoffry First I'd like say that we are not "indians". That is a term for the East Indians. We are First Nations and remember that for my next few points. We are the decendents of this country and as such we have certain privilages. I suppose if you went back to your mother country you would have the same. Second, we are not squatters. I have my name on a tenants agreement and Hydro, Gas, Telus and satelitte run to our homes. We pay them all. We have running water and yards to take care of. Granted there are alot of people here that do not but that is our problem and we do get on their cases about this. I see this in the non-native communities as well. There is alot of drugs and alcohol in our neighbourhood here as well as in the non-native community as well. I remember my non-native mother telling me that if you have two drunks sitting beside each other that people will sneer at the native drunk while pitying the white drunk. We have a smaller community here compared to the "white" community so yes you will see ours more. INAC while starting out for the natives now has a larger intake of non-natives in town. As far as judging goes to me it looks as though you have judged others in which means you have judged your self harshly, your words make me feel like a warrior, and for this I thank you. (Previous paragraph done by my warrior) So on to the TAXES. I, personally have a job and have been paying into taxes. So Yes I too am paying for, ommigosh!. I'm paying for my own hotel and food and clothes! How about that! And I don't know what hotels you've stayed at but these were ok. I'm used to better but it was in an emergency. The food was good and yes I'll have to agree that I ate well and have to lose a few pounds but so what. These are the perks to being a First Nations race. So Blah! Cry me a river. The asbestos that the government and we knew that was there is something that I hope they settle. Alegations that it is there was suspicious and evacuating us when they did was inconvienient. I hear that there's asbestos in thousands of old homes in the city, so I'm glad they found it prudent to do what they did with us. Yes I am First Nations and proud of it. No one is going to make me feel less then I am. I'm sorry there is still so much racisim in this country when we have so much. I thank the non-natives for their contribution to our country and I am also glad there are alot of nice people here in Calgary.