A while back, while searching for information on Six Nations and the stand-off, at some point I was directed to this site, one where you were encouraged to say what you thought, to post your personal comments on this website, here: http://www.torontomike.com/2006/04/six_nations_caledonia_standoff.html , and so I went there and posted what is below.
Check out what someone wrote to me after that, in the 'COMMENTS' section underneath...
Read it slowly and carefully. I can hardly believe there is such ignorance and lack of respect still alive among us!
It is worth taking every line and making a three-hour presentation on each!
Happy reading!
LM
----------------------------- MY COMMENT ON THE STAND-OFF ------------------------------------------------------------
Luc Majno
December
4, 2007 / 20:37
---------------------------------- COMMENT RECIEVED ---------------------------------------------------------
Bob Kismet
December
28, 2007 / 04:38
Luc Majno...
I wish you would have said just a bit more.
Are you enjoying the 'BOOK'? Do you have a specific criticism of it?
Or perhaps you wish to return it? Not quite sure what the message is.
Why would you take a BOOK from someone in a long robe, when there was no written language in your culture anyway?
Did it look like food or something? Did you gnaw on it for a while before you figured out what it was for?
You certainly wouldn't have been able to read it.
Unless of course long robe man taught you.
If he did, I hope you remembered to thank him, because reading is important in this day and age.
... but you couldn't have learned to read with your eyes closed.
Do you regret closing your eyes or something?
And why do you close your eyes just because long robe man told you to? You could get outsmarted that way.
When you say "we", you seem to be implying that you are over 500 years old or something. That seems outrageous. Are you kidding or lying?
If you are in fact less than 500 years old, you were born into a land with many cultures and many different colours of people.
In my opinion all people are equal. Do you not agree?
My ancestors had their bakery taken away by Nazis, and that is how my parents wound up in Canada.
They didn't whine, and that was about 60 years ago, and they are still alive.
They would probably be quite embarrassed if their descendants, 500 years in the future, asked the Germans to give them a bakery.
Whoever stupidly traded their country for a book isn't around any more for us to make fun of for being so bass ackward, so let's let it go allright?
Time to get on with life. Open your eyes.
Read the book. If it sucks, throw it away and get a different one.
If you don't like reading books at all, you can watch the TV that whitey was kind enough to invent.
Books aren't the only way that the settlers enriched this land.
That is all I wish to say.
"...I remember when you first came,
in long robes you came to us holding your book, saying:
"Come and let us close our eyes and pray together!"
When we opened our eyes,
we had your 'BOOK'
and you had all our LAND."
That is all I wish to say.