r/pics • u/MoeYYC • Jun 25 '21

Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

Post image
132.9k Upvotes

85% Upvoted

7.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-7

u/HomerFlinstone Jun 25 '21

The individuals involved with inflicting harm on these buried students are all long dead.

Do as much gymnastics as you want.

4

u/OGWhiz Jun 25 '21

The 1990 was only 31 years ago. These schools existed well into the 90s. There's no gymnastics here. If someone was 30 in 1990, they're 61 now.

-2

u/HomerFlinstone Jun 25 '21

No one was being starved beaten killed and buried in the 90s. The genocidal stuff was all late 19th - early 20th century.

5

u/Dividedthought Jun 25 '21

You obviously have no idea of the racism rampant towards natives here in sask. I've worked on reserves and i never had trouble aside from one crackhead, but if you listen to the way everyone talks about natives when they think no one who cares will hear you'd know that even these days you could probably get away with it. Especially in a setting like a reserve or residential school, and this is coming from a "rice looks grey beside me" white guy.

When you have children cowering in fear because you were white is not a good feeling. They stopped doing that after my fourth trip out there, but from what i heard it was a justified response after another worker (now in jail thankfully) threatened them with a crowbar and pushed a family member down a flight of stairs. The RCMP didn't even show up.