Speaking only for myself as an indigenous, trans-female living in urban BC I found my experiences with the BC health services to be completely absent of discrimination racism. I don’t believe “anti-racism” or indigenous only training to be necessary. Not at all.
(h/t DCH)
I can’t answer the racism survey. I am not a pathetic whiner. Anyone who has repeated bad experiences among the Florence Nightingales of the health care system must really be a piece of shit. You get the odd Nurse Ratched but they are few and far between. I have no doubt that medical professionals discriminate against drunks but that is for self protection. Discriminate against non-drunken Indians – not likely.
Agreed
I have indigenous treaty status realties and I agree too. Discriminating against drunks and druggies and homeless types who happen to be indigenous is not discriminating against them because they are indigenous.
I went through the survey. It seemed as though they wanted me to complain that I was being mistreated by the health system. It is also pretty much a survey to try to coral as many angry Indian ingrates as possible … to make health care workers look racists.
Governments must stop promoting racism and leave people to sort out their differences on their own… like we have been doing for the past 100 thousand years.
I loved the open comments sections. I, too, went after the pollsters for promoting racism. And pointed out the racist school systems on the reserves as why indigenous people would feel hard put upon in the health care service – not because they are, but because they have been trained to be racist and to expect sub-standard care.
I think some fully satisfied elderly indigenous trans women will have asked for better food. Probably something people of all groups can unite behind
Yes I used that to suggest that they were promoting racist solutions to problems that maybe did not exist or were exaggerated.
The entire survey was designed to find bias and mistreatment. There were three questions that couldn’t be answered if you had only good experiences.
If there were no problems, one wouldn’t need socialist governments to solve them; therefore, governments create problems.
There were roads and fields and industry before governments; there were cooperative civic ventures before governments; there was war and peace before governments. There was no taxation before governments. What do governments do for us?
Great way to get indigenous voices heard; especially the ones that want segregation.
Haha pretty easy to fill out since I’m already an Indian! I’ve never experienced racism beyond normal friendly insults with friends.
Indian Dene First Nation
Some among the Gitksan I grew up with would say you’re an apply. You might look red, but you’re obviously white inside (they used that on each other a lot). The best way to prove someone was really red was that they never paid taxes on anything.
Why, you probably work (or worked) for a living, too, instead of waiting for the big cheques to come rolling in. How can you call yourself a true steward of the land if you actually work for a living? (/sarc)
My DIL has often been accused to “acting white”. It happens when a subset of her relatives come to visit and complain if she gets upset about drug use in front of the kids, drunken loutish behaviour, they take her stuff, or use her bank card without her permission. She orders them out for their bad behaviour and tells them not to come back they tell her she’s “too white” like that’s a terrible insult.
Exactly. And I see that I miss-spelled “apple” in my haste to post. Confirmation bias missed it in review (because I knew what I wanted to say). Sorry all!
I’m Indian inside and out. Business owner and pay more than my fair share of tax. I’m not white inside. Why would you say that? Plenty of Indians pay taxand work hard. That has nothing to do with being white. You need to re-examine your perspective.
IDNF – not my perspective, that of the Gitksan among whom I grew up. Full status Indians who lived off reserve and were full Canadians (as you are, by your actions) were sneered at as being apples, they only looked like they were red on the outside. I couldn’t figure it out, I thought we were all Canadian. The “them versus us” was decided, by some, on who lived off of the system and who supported (and paid into) the system.
I was one of the cumsewa that got laughed at because we didn’t even get paid (by the government) to go to school (grade 8 is where they would bring the checks in to show us that yes, they got government checks for attending school, and there must be something wrong with us white-skins that didn’t).
Yes. That happens. You gotta decide what you wanna be. Wanna be a drunk, loser. Go ahead. If your life sucks it is because you chose that path. If people get in your way and call you names, ignore them, get away from them. Leave. Eliminate all negativity from your life. Do whatever it takes to get away from that negativity AT ALL COSTS. Surround yourself with positive people and things that inspire you to work hard. Be grateful for everything you have. When you have taken care of yourself and your loved ones. GIVE BACK! You can even help the assholes that tried to hold you back. That is how you close the circle and reconcile your past.
Oh, and avoid anything to do with all these people that are stuck on HEALING. That’s a cop out. That is being a victim. Indians are not victims. We are strong, tough, resilient and successful – if we CHOOSE TO BE.
worthy of a full page post. +1.
A loaded question:
What do you think are the top three reasons for the negative experiences you may have had?
• My ancestry or origins – including culture, ethnicity, being Indigenous
• My income level
• My gender
• My education
• My sexual orientation
• Physical disability
• My age
• Substance use
• My religion/spirituality
• My mental health
• My skin colour
• Other health conditions
• My appearance (e.g. weight, height, clothing)
• The way I speak English or my accent
• Where I live
• None of the above
• Other:
Please select at most 3 answers. Please do not include any personally identifiable information about yourself or others in your responses.
Answer: Substance abuse, my appearance, the way I speak English. In other words I was drunk as a skunk, covered in my own vomit and urine and swearing abusively at the very people trying to save me from my own stupidity.
Yes I took the drug/alcohol approach, never saw any health services except emergency, where I was always glad of the treatment.
Other. I presented as a pain in the ass, entitled, demanding patient who insisted the nurses and Doctors do exactly as I told them … and then they had the temerity to treat me rudely!
I remember years ago in a hospital emergency room next to me was an Injun demanding that he should be able to jump the queue to be first in line because he was an Injun. The hospital staff ignored his request, but it didn’t stop him from demanding. I wonder if it was today, would anything change.
Substance abuse
That was fun – but many of the questions were loaded or leading so we know what the results will be. HOwever maybe my answers will sway the results. But probably not, once they ‘clean’ the data.
Lafond, or whatever her name is, is the perfect gubermint bureaucrat. First she grovels and apologizes to the local chiefs, for being on their lands, and allowing them, yadda yadda yadda.
Then she goes on to declare that “this isn’t a witch hunt”, then states what she’s going to do, which, is a witch hunt.
Great time for the gubermint here, to declare war on health care workers, isn’t it?
She should work out well with the natives, she speak with fork tongue!
In the immortal words of Spanky from the Little Rascals:
“Me too neither!”
The B.C. government obviously can’t handle this alone. Time for Blackie to set up a ten year, sixty million dollar inquiry resulting in a big cheque and tearful apology. Get out the drums, feathers and chants to the sacred liquor bottle.
DOn’t forget the kayaks and Wampum.
This effort by the BC government will kill people. You can’t have medical professionals avoiding asking questions because they’re afraid of being called racist.
Remember, it’s B. C., with an NDP government. It’s a province where logic goes to die.
B A, has been since I first worked there in 1966. Probably much before that.
I don’t remember it being that bad while I was growing up in Fort St. John. It really started going downhill when Lotusland unwisely elected “Fat Little Dave” Barrett and his gang of Keystone Kommies. Lotuslanders are slow learners, returning the Dippers into office about every 10 years.
Sad but true.
I found it odd that the choices for type of location were Urban area, Rural area, Small Rural area, and Remote area. First, are there no Suburban areas, or is that now lumped into Urban? Second, what’s the difference between Rural and Small Rural? And how far out do you have to go to switch from Rural to Remote?
Remember folks, only us ‘bad’ people would mislead them on their adorable little survey, no ‘good’ people would ever mislead them to skew the results in a direction more favourable to them.
The last three or four sections are the most important, stick with it to the end. They propose a racist solution to ostensible racism and racist medicine (indigenous remedies/healing). How did that work for their lifespan?
Speaking for myself as a person who loves pretty blondes with big knockers, I am insulted and shocked that the CBC obviously discriminates against them, hiring only butch looking harpies as anchors and gay men.
Thank you very much for your participation in this survey.
If you are experiencing any
negative effectsRAAAACISM! from completing this survey, please see this list of available resources KACHING! and referrals for mental health and wellness support (Son of Fidel getting on his knees to fellate me) and services.I chose not to identify anything about myself except for age range.
I was torn. Do I highlight the fact that I never experienced racial profiling, or do I mention the shortcomings of our universal health care system that impacted me personally?
I started off saying everything was fine then I remembered this young lady doctor from one of the Stans who gave me four bad assessments in one visit. I then switched to my wife’s indo-Canadian lady Dr. She was great. So, I chose “Sometimes”, a lot
I identify as a sixty something knuckle dragging Neaderthal conservative…
but try as I may, I couldn’t find where to enter that relevant information.
So I was forced to identify as a ‘two spirit indigenous person of another tribe’.