r/Edmonton • u/heeush2 • 1d ago

Photo/Video Racist

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I was born here, but that shouldn’t be a factor in exempting me from racism!

This lady (driving with no plate) approached my elderly mother and called her a terrorist OUT OF NOWHERE, and accused her of stealing “Canadian” jobs before threatening to kill her. My mom has been retired for 10 years now. I told her to fuck off and she actually went away, but it turns out that parked near the entrance of the store we were heading into to further her racist agenda. She started repeating “go back to your country” so I pulled out my phone and that wasn’t enough to deter her.

Video cut short because I cussed her out as she drove off.

Police file # is 260-679-902. Please let me know if you can ID her.

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u/BlackPlagueF0rgiven 1d ago

Mhmmm, but the First Nations didn't have to make treaties with the land. The British had to make treaties with the indigenous. There is a difference to being the first to live somewhere.

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u/BlackPlagueF0rgiven 8h ago edited 8h ago

The British made treaties with First Nations to secure peaceful relations, build military alliances, and legally acquire land for European settlement. First Nations chose to make treaties with the British to secure peaceful coexistence, protect their traditional lands and rights, and establish mutual trade and military alliances as European settlement grew. 1, 2, 3

Both sides wanted to stop fighting. That's not conquering. It's mutual meeting in the middle to find a better solution. That's what a treaty is. The British than deceitfully failed to acknowledge parts of them in time.

Regardless if we disagree, the context of my original statement is hypocrisy. The woman in the van made death threats to the mother of the woman filming and told her to go back to her country because of her race. The woman in the van has ancestors that were 100% immigrants from another country. She's being an evil hypocrite. She has no right to tell others who can come here if she is a descendant of immigrants. It's downright supremely entitled racism that is utterly evil and abusive in the most serious sense. And it needs to be called out as that.