How can I trust the media mainstream media when
Mohawks are made to be guilty for the death of Corporal Marcel Lemay? The journalists were at the Inquest into the
death of Marcel Lemay and NO CHARGES were brought against Mohawks. There was no conclusive proof because
evidence was tampered with, when trees were chopped down. There was no autopsy report that told us who
shot the bullet, no one knows. In all
honesty no one know who shot the Corporal.
His death was tragic. A life was
lost. However, today another loss is
felt that is the loss of truth.
Journalists are burying the truth under a
mountain of false information and cultural perception. Because it is assumed
that Mohawks are guilty. Some have
interviewed the sister of Corporal Marcel Lemay who said she forgave and was
working towards peace. Who did she
forgive? No one knows who shot the fatal bullet. I cannot forgive nor forget the media for
making up stories, for implying the Mohawks are guilty. They had the Inquest report and they saw or
read that there was NO CHARGES against Mohawks, because of lack of proof. Yet, journalists imply the Mohawks were
guilty.
Journalists are there to inform to help us
understand our world in an honest fashion.
Journalists use facts and should be able to make the difference between malicious
gossips, urban legends, and cultural assumption their role is to differentiate between
lies and truth. Journalists are human and are subject to cultural biases and
systemic racism. This racism is part of
a larger problem that is colonialism and a colonialist mentality. Journalists are still playing cowboy and Indians
or calling the cavalry heroes, those who murdered First Nation are heroes. Bridges, lakes, cities, streets, schools are
named after them. It is the same as
naming a building or street after a Confederate hero. It would be the same as if we named a school
Hitler or Mengele. People will object to
a school being named after Hitler but they are happy to name a lake after Champlain.
As a child because I was the only girl playing
with boys’ cowboy and Indian, the boys were the cowboys and I was always the Indian. I was outnumbered 3 or 4 boys against one
girl. Girls are supposed to be weaker than and not as good t strategy as
boys. Yet, I could outwit, outsmart,
overcome and win. Well, they were always
surprised to see that I won. Maybe this why
I can empathize with First Nation and see them as winners. I am comfortable being a woman as I know I
have power over myself and my actions.
Truth will set us free as lies shackle us and
tie us down. Lies create enemies
perpetuate division and creates enemies.
By telling the truth we clear up the way to have an honest open
discussion with each other. I listen to
you, hear your pain, feel your pain and empathize with you. I do not see you as a victim in need of my
help as I am no hero and do not have any solutions. By talking, discussing and
being honest with each other we can find solutions. Because, we are equal yet
different but equal nonetheless. By
sharing our knowledge, our concerns and our solutions we will be able as
Canadians to be free.
We came here seeking freedom and a new life, because
back in France or England or Spain the water was polluted. Life expectancy was
short. Houses were built side by side. When Cartier first landed he remarked there
was chateau, no forts, no houses, no cities: the area he called virgin land and
uncivilized. After Cartier came Champlain de Maisonneuve
and the French aristocracy and peasants.
A feudal system was put in place and these men decided to civilize this
part of the world, which they called India hence Indian.
India was where they came landed. Yes, they were sure they had landed in India
it took a few hundred years to realize it was a new world. Yet the word Indian still persists to be
used. We as Canadians never bothered to
ask the people what their names were. We stole their identity. Just like we did
to Jews, we took their religious book their Bible and then used it to gain
control of the world by converting people.
They came with the cross (missionaries) accompanied by guns (the army) preached
the Bible and stole the land a Native friend told me. These preacher men wanted the people to be created
in their image or what they perceived as such, so they appropriated people
called them My Indians.
First Nation were appropriated by being
renamed. We speaking French could not
pronounce Wendate so we called them Huron, Kanien’kehá:ka impossible to pronounce
let us call them Mohawks or Iroquois. Let us say they are blood thirsty because
women are leaders. Truth be told they
are the “people of the flint”. Women
were leaders. This mentality still
persists in Canada that Mohawks are killers, this is a lie. No one knows which bullet killed Corporal
Lemay no autopsy no evidence as proof was destroyed by the police. The SQ chopped down trees destroyed
evidence.
In 1990 I started by reporting for CKUT the
Inquest into the death of Marcel Lemay.
I had a radio show for ten years, as a result, Twisting Tongue. 25 years
later I have a blog and I write about my own experiences with First Nation
people, my own unvarnished truth. I do
not whitewash truth not do I distort facts.
Truth and reconciliation will be a reality when we as Canadians in all
provinces stop lying and start telling the truth.
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