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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Mon May 7, 2018, 07:41 PM May 2018

Reconciliation not started in U.S.

From the article:

Since 2008, when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established, Canada has been wrestling with the legacy of the residential school system....

This was evident last month, when Pope Francis’s decision not to apologize for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system made headlines across Canada....

Like Canada, the U.S. also had a similar boarding school system for Indigenous children.
In fact, the Canadian residential school system was modelled on it; in 1879, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald sent Nicholas Davin to the U.S. to study its boarding schools for Indigenous children.


To read more:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/reconciliation-not-started-in-us-481819113.html
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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. The site doesn't seem to want to fully display in any browser I've tried.
Tue May 8, 2018, 09:39 AM
May 2018

But this smells like more whataboutism from you.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
2. It's basically imploring American churches to apologize for their role in the "boarding schools".
Tue May 8, 2018, 11:32 AM
May 2018

That's going to be an uphill battle considering how many churches still see the missionary work they did in the New World as a net positive.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
6. Yes, gil, countering you spreading nonsense is reflexive for me.
Wed May 9, 2018, 02:50 PM
May 2018

I mean, you do it so much, it's become a habit for me to respond.

Go ahead and have your last word. You have dropped any pretense of defending your article, so I'm done.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
7. After you read the actual article,
Wed May 9, 2018, 09:28 PM
May 2018

perhaps you will stop constructing with straw.

You are essentially arguing against something that you admitted having not read. The definitive illustration of the 11th Commandment and reflex behavior,

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
8. Provide me with a link that works.
Thu May 10, 2018, 09:21 AM
May 2018

And dispense with your whataboutism.

This is a church problem, no?

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. 404 views and no other complaints.
Thu May 10, 2018, 08:29 PM
May 2018

And it is a problem concerning church schools that treated their First Nations students badly.

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