We have just celebrated the new year of 2023.
Unfortunately, there are individuals who choose to live in the past when racism was acceptable to the weak political leaders of the day. They felt threatened by a peaceful nation who were not the same skin colour as they were and spoke a different language and owned the land their people were living on.
Hence the beginning of the assimilation process against First Nation Indians that included the residential school era and all the bogus treaties signed by uneducated First Nations Indians throughout Canada who had no legal advice as to what they were signing.
These are the same type of weak individuals who somehow feel empowered by committing a cowardly act of racism by vandalizing the Penticton Indian Bands signs with hateful racist graffiti.
Fortunately, they are in a small minority. The majority of Canadians denounce any act of racism against any race, and is the most inclusive nation in the world.
The irony in all this is the original First Nation Indian inhabitants of BC are not included when government and corporations enrich themselves from unceded First Nation territories.
The high price of real estate lands for urban sprawl and valuable resources extracted from First Nations territories without a valid treaty or any other agreement must be reconciled fairly.
Joe McGinnis, Oliver
