vitiligo kali writes

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I spent like 20 minutes trying to compose a tweet about how important it is for people to educate themselves on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls but i kept going over the character limit. There are families right now in Manitoba who are paying out of their own pockets to drag the Red River in hopes of finding the bodies of their loved ones who have gone missing. It’s impossible to fathom how tragic that is and how the Canadian government is refusing to help. Last year they found 7 bodies, if the Canadian government cared even the littlest bit about the Indigenous people in Canada those bodies women and girls would not have to wait for an annual drag of the river,  funded by their families to be found. If the government cared even the littlest bit they would be dragging those waters after an Indigenous women or girl is reported missing, they would be working with the families to find the girls and working with communities to help them heal. The Canadian government is a complete joke as Stephen Harper argues that this isn’t a race issue and says it isn’t on his radar. As he continues to ignore the issue Stephen Harper is perpetuating and encouraging violence against Indigenous women and girls. The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is in the thousands, and that is blood on the government’s hands. 

Interviewer: Why is that?

Toni Morrison: There is this feeling that artists have—photographers, more than other people, and writers—that they are acting like a succubus … this process of taking from something that’s alive and using it for one’s own purposes. You can do it with trees, butterflies, or human beings. Making a little life for oneself by scavenging other people’s lives is a big question, and it does have moral and ethical implications.