While it's true I'm from Canada and can call myself Canadian, I'm in a large way disconnected from the country's relative past.
This is partly because I'm came from first-generation immigrants who weren't a part of said past.
But in regards to this recent post (https://vultcult.blogspot.com/2021/05/why-acknowledging-genocide-is-relevant.html), and this recent finding (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-182-unmarked-graves-found-at-another-residential-school/ar-AALDq85), the lack of justice and lack of accountability in obtaining said justice makes me ashamed.
It also makes me deeply angry. After, we're talking about the deaths (many of them violent, and often brutally murdered) of children; brown children for that matter.
But that anger won't be resolved by further acts of violence. Indeed the recent spate of church fires I think is being used as means to deflect attention away from the above-mentioned the lack of justice and lack of accountability in obtaining said justice.
Without justice for those children, without anyone and the institutions who supported those anyones ever facing the criminal prosecution, there will never be closure. There will never be forgiveness or 'reconciliation'. And certainly without really learning what happened to each of these children, there is no 'truth'.
Not today. These victims haven't had justice. That makes us all guilty.
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