Ear to the ground is how to hear it

PRINCE GEORGE 5:30 PM 04/10/2007 - After hanging around a place for a while (a month thus far in Prince George, BC), a person may become 'habituated' to everything, possibly inured of some of it and accustomed to the rest. That is how a full page in a local daily managed to escape my attention until today. It reflects the stunning level of success in systemic racism in Canadian society to create failure to communicate, understand, and work with First Nation people on any level, rural or urban, north south east or west.

See part 2 in the next video (below, click on the pic of me in the yellow shirt). Tragically this massive success at creating failure is undoing the hopes and dreams of human beings for normal lives, including over half the Aboriginal students in school in Prince George, BC, while society stands on the neck of their aspirations and does it with a heavy boot and refuses to let them up, ever, and frankly, barely lets them breath (consider the rate of youth suicide in First Nations people urban and rural).

Canadian society has decided First Nation people are in this position and refuses to acknowledge a scintilla of responsibility for the gigantic mess produced by an array of authorities ruling over First Nation life. The situation surrounding First Nation education in Prince George is appalling. Less than half these kids are graduating. The main complaint from the mostly former students is the systemic racism faced in lacing up their shoes and toddling off to school.

How do I know this? The local Prince George Citizen daily newspaper, said it, as regards their report on an Aboriginal education task force. The newspaper did this on a distinctly 'Aboriginal' (and, First Nation) page 6 on Sep 26 07. The local yokels are paying close heed to First Nation affairs, On the face of it, until you look again, and see them report, in bold faced ink, "With people speaking to bears it is pretty hard to talk science," and so goes the story, which decries how much harder the task has become to rip the earth to shreds without approval from those people out there speaking to bears (while, presumably, backing away softly).

The top story on this page 6 is merely one day's sampling of the systemic element of constant racism drowning aspirations every day. It was a top line discussion about the Kemess Mine in which Northgate Minerals wants to expand in the north, essentially looking to expand their profits from mining in BC's north. Those expanding and extending profits are proposed by Northgate Minerals to expand and extend at the expense of Amazay Lake (what whites call Duncan Lake) and other environmental damages to habitat. But seriously, the newspaper ran the disparaging sub-headline imbedded inside the story about what the head of the white men said while continuing to lead the charge against the lake (on behalf of minerals, shareholders, and world metal speculators).

Ken Stowe, CEO for Northgate Minerals, doesn't speak bear, apparently (at least not in front of an audience in Denver, Colo), and actually has a problem with people speaking to bears. This is not hard to understand. People who speak to bears are probably terrorists (on some level or another), and certainly not discussing the stock market unless it is to impede it. Let's not forget bears are wild animals and not usually known for listening (instead, they smell things out).  The white man's chief EO representing Northgate, said, "There's things in there that went on the (environmental) panel (report) about people speaking to bears, so, it's pretty hard to talk science," not to mention destruction of territory and habitat, some of which belongs to bears, roaring or not, and some of which belongs to people.

That was one report. Let us turn to the other report, the more important report, because it regards an issue that Ken Stowe should be able to grasp, listening to teachers. It is hard to listen to teachers when you don’t know what they are saying. It is impossible to learn from people who talk to wooden crosses and spirits that rise from the dead to become the Son of God who dances around with principalities and powers of the air but does not speak to bears. It is impossible to transmit deep lessons from one to another when one side pretends it has an exclusive dominion to knowledge (false, because most of what these self-anointed geniuses actually know was purloined from others) and who systematically derides any efforts from others to gain entrance to the domain by belittling traditions and ancestry along with the will to gain access to new knowledge. So many times now the system has been designed by edict and rewritten to maintain a fake currency that one would hardly recognize the ignorant darwinisms designed by its masters into the system.

It is indeed incredible that only today are educators becoming aware that some kids hear lots at home about talking to bears (just like cretin kids err, Christian kids ponder how many angels dance on the heads of pins). So when these kids who hear about talking to bears go to school and learn that only some kind of idiot talks to bears and ruins everything for the mining companies, well, it probably sounds like maybe their ideas should take a hike and go somewhere else, because they sure don't sound like they belong near this crowd hovering over this book about Dick and Jane. Seriously, how do you think a First Nation kid feels when he or she cracks open the newspaper to do that all important school project for Mrs. Smith and reads on Page 6 of the PG Citizen that the head of Northgate Minerals is talking nonsense about First Nation beliefs? The kids are saying, Where's my crack cocaine. Or in the extreme cases, Give me a rope to hang myself. Young lady whom I met Thanksgiving Day in my curious journey (followed here in print, pic, and vid at your faithful www.firstnationscanada.com and www.crimewatchcanada.com won't let a system dictate terms of existence, however, exceptions exist to prove rules. Grace is one year away from graduation at high school, already a veteran with television experience, and clearly focused on a career in film and media. The world can expect to see more of her enchanting good looks.