Comments on: Where is My People’s History? http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/where-is-my-peoples-history You ain't gotta be in jail to be doin' time. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Don http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/where-is-my-peoples-history/comment-page-1#comment-72844 Don Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:12:17 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=10491#comment-72844 Unlike Jack's criticism about the removal of gay rights references, I find The Tyee's criticisms unconvincing. I don't agree that a guide for new citizens should be about how to join a union or about the horrible plight of women and First Nations people in Canada today. I don't have much sympathy with a point of view that sees national recognition of the death of the last veteran of the First World War as overly "militaristic". Unlike Jack’s criticism about the removal of gay rights references, I find The Tyee’s criticisms unconvincing. I don’t agree that a guide for new citizens should be about how to join a union or about the horrible plight of women and First Nations people in Canada today. I don’t have much sympathy with a point of view that sees national recognition of the death of the last veteran of the First World War as overly “militaristic”.

]]> By: Don http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/where-is-my-peoples-history/comment-page-1#comment-72843 Don Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:52:48 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=10491#comment-72843 There's the "Black Book of English Canada", or something like that. I haven't read it, and I'm posting this from my Bold 9000, so I won't have a lot of details or links here. It is a French Canadian book written in Canadian French; I think there is an English translation but I'm not sure. My impression is that it is a series of historical examples of how everything that English Canada has done is shit, and oppressive, racist, exclusionary, or hateful. <U>Update:</u> I had the correct title. And there is an <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/190-0738803-1040903?redirect=true&ref_=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14&qid=1111273404&a=077102259X&sr=8-3" rel="nofollow">English translation</a>. There’s the “Black Book of English Canada”, or something like that. I haven’t read it, and I’m posting this from my Bold 9000, so I won’t have a lot of details or links here. It is a French Canadian book written in Canadian French; I think there is an English translation but I’m not sure. My impression is that it is a series of historical examples of how everything that English Canada has done is shit, and oppressive, racist, exclusionary, or hateful.

Update: I had the correct title. And there is an English translation.

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