The
kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savanah Guthrie who hosts the Today
Show, is tragic; and the all-out effort to find her is in no way to be criticized
just because of her wealth and public standing.
But there is a two-tier system of social justice.
In 2022, the
National Crime Information Center reported 4,487 cases of missing Native American
women and girls. A large number of the
missing are girls under 17 years of age.
Where is the
National publicity? Where is the massive
joint police and FBI turnout, similar to the effort to find Nancy Guthrie?
It doesn’t
exist.
My wife is Native American. We spent eleven years teaching school in the Athabaskan, Inuit, and Yupik Native villages of Alaska. The villages are a different cultural world from mainstream America. What happens in the villages often stays in the villages, and this seems to be fine with the government and white law enforcement.
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You're right, of course, and we see that double standard all the time, both in the USA and in Canada.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. There is a two tiered justice system in this country. And it is odd, but coincidentally, the war against the "First People" technically ended in August, 1924, 102 years ago. That was only 2 months after the Indigenous people of this country were given the right of US citizenship. And even after, right inot the 1970s and in many cases beyond,they have been treated like less than citizens in the land they used to own.
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