Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples In Canada Is Very Real And Present, Especially In The Health

Systemic racism against Indigenous Peoples in Canada is very real and present, especially in the health system.

Today, Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan First Nation, died in horrible conditions and around racist staff at Joliette hospital in Montreal city. She shared a live video of her on Facebook crying for help in her mother tongue, saying that she received too much medication. In the video, we can also hear two caregivers saying violent and harmful words to her, like “fucking fat woman, it’s better if you’re dead” “are you done joking around”

This is so revolting, and unfortunately it’s a reality for the Indigenous community here. They’re completely marginalized. The health care system doesn’t care about them.

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4 years ago

THIS!

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That's why I keep a journal next to my bed so I can write down the good stuff... then I have to try my hardest to understand my own handwriting through the dream logic lense

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The best way to gauge how much a white person is actually working on their racism is to see how they treat a black person who makes them mad or uncomfortable or that they think isn’t being respectable. Even the most “anti racist” seeming white people will let that facade slip once they come across a black person they think isn’t respectable or that makes them mad.

When white people come across a black person that won’t coddle their feelings in the way society has taught white people to expect, that’s when their true colors come out. That’s how you learn the most about where a white person is at in the process of unlearning racism and checking themselves for unconscious bias.

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4 years ago

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