[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by rousseau

I'm genuinely curious what these spokespersons would say at an event in Brampton or Markham. Would they rant about "white people" to a room full of non-white people whose ancestors very clearly had nothing to do with how North America was settled?

Among other subjects, my dad taught First Nations history to a lot of First Nations kids at high schools in the Six Nations area over several decades. He's not First Nations (nor am I). He knows the history inside and out, and while he's been a progressive/social justice person since the 1960s, he doesn't go to the ridiculous polemical extremes that people in the current climate do when he talks about it.

I suspect that my father's life's work would not go over very well with a lot of these bloviating activists. Perhaps it was a form of "cultural appropriation" on his part? I don't think he ever wore a headdress...

"Settlers" works as the generic.