"Pantomime and Pageantry"

Sol Mamakwa’s message to Canadians about Canada Day. He’s an Ontario politician for the riding of Kiiwetinoong.

https://twitter.com/solmamakwa/status/1409509397668192257

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

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Character(s)/Toy(s): Stuffed bear Kristoff and Stuffed Sven

Prop(s): Markers, clothes, anything multicolored

Theme: Rainbow!

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Character(s)/Toy(s): Anna and Olaf figurine in the ice boat

Prop(s): Fairy lights, candles, Christmas lights, a regular lamps, add in lights with effects, etc

Theme: Lights!

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Snow lover, even in midsummers

That means EVERY republican senator voted to make Juneteenth a national holiday. NONE of them objected. That includes the most racist of them. So that shows you what an empty gesture it is, because the likes of Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz were like "*shrug* why not?"

They're trying to wipe Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project clean from the curriculum and go back to pretending slavery never happened or wasn't "that bad" and of course go back to pretending racism is over and denying systemic racism exists. That is the current news wave. That is trending, pressing, news.

And in the midst of that they go "sure, let's make the day that literally marks the end of slavery a day of recognition" because it doesn't mean shit.

Now, Juneteenth should be a national holiday and this would be great news if it came with approval of Critical Race Theory and MAYBE if they also passed the goddamn Voting Rights Act and stopped implementing Jim Crow era-type suppressive voting laws in a different state every month.

Open your money holder to Black-owned businesses ONLY.

Use your voice and make the Voting Rights and George Floyd Bills laws of the land.

DO NOT commercialize Juneteenth.

Speak out against Racism and Systematic Racism no matter how small.