[HuffoPo] 'Racist' Nanaimo Daily News Letter About First Nations Sparks Outrage (TWEETS)
29.3.13
'Racist' Nanaimo Daily News Letter About First Nations Sparks Outrage (TWEETS): The Nanaimo Daily News has apologized for printing a "racist" letter that stated First Nations have a history that is "notable only for underachievement."
Don Olsen's letter in the Vancouver Island newspaper on Wednesday mounts a pile of criticism on First Nations, saying they "never 'discovered' the wheel," that they never came up with a written language and that they "only 'figured out' a drum and a rattle for musical instruments."
The letter ends with: "Instead of finding their identity and source of pride in some folks who occupied the land 15,000 years ago. Let them stand or fall on their own account. Just like the rest of us have to do."
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