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NOS2Go4Me,Jul 10 2007, 03:54 PM Wrote:If knowledge is power, why aren't more natives empowering themselves? If addiction and over-eating are elective disorders, why are those who are becoming addicted not shouldering the responsibility in removing themselves from the same problems that other willing individuals already do?

I'm reminded of the ruling out in BC last week about the banning of ice cream trucks from a reservation. Why ban the trucks and not smoking or drinking? Why not educate folks on proper portion sizes and responsbile diets? Eating ice cream is a choice, not a forced activity. If you can't keep yourself from eating massive amounts of ice cream, the "white man" is not to blame for that. But, in that ban of ice cream trucks... they are effectively saying that the dietary responsibility of aboriginals falls to non-natives and not the natives themselves.

So now, when we're faced with ugly precedents like that... how are the majority of skeptical Canadians supposed to see aboriginals and their claims of hardship and inequality?
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First of all I never heard of this ban and will havee to look into it....
but...
No offense here but you kind of just contradicted yourself a bit...
Why not shoulder the responsibility ?... seems like they have and took action and "removed the problem"

Why Band ice cream and not smoking or drinking? You say eating ice cream is a choice, arent smoking or drinking choices ? addictive choices yes but people can be addicted to food as well.. and we have a higher disposition to food related illness such as diabetes..

Banning the ice cream trucks hardly says white man is to blame rather than we see a problem and are taking steps to prevent it... "taking esponsibility" as you put it... much like smoking bans in cities..

and then

Quote:So now, when we're faced with ugly precedents like that... how are the majority of skeptical Canadians supposed to see aboriginals and their claims of hardship and inequality

well again, no offense here... but it seems like your searching for something to complain about