Six Nations: Province Rewards Racism

The provincial government is giving more money to Caledonia to try and get shoppers into the town, reports the Hamilton Spectator. The town is trying to offset the bad image it has gotten since the Reclamation began.

There are two really big problems with this:

1. That bad image is largely a result of the widespread racism in the town. This includes racist comments made by the Mayor, who was recently reelected, as well as many people who live there. If you have bad press because a whole lot of people in your town are overtly racist and very few people speak out against it you should really be sucking it up, to getting money for it.

2. There are 20,000 people who are Band Members for Six Nations, many of them live within a stone's throw from Caledonia. The vast majority of people from Six Nations (and not to mention their supporters) aren't going to Caledonia any more because of the overt racism in the town.

Oh yeah, don't forget the part about how a lot of the wealth of Ontario was gotten by robing people of Six Nations and the refusal to make any reparations or respect treaties and proclamations. Why is Ontario giving the money to Caledonia when they are stalling Six Nations? The province is rewarding racism because it is racist - plain and simple.