Toddler Shot on Reserve

17Apr08

So, the inevitable’s happened. A toddler got shot on a reserve, not fatally thank gods, and now The Press is interested in the problems on reserves. It’s always like this, some tragic thing happens, someone dies sniffing gas, someone gets murdered, someone gets shot, something always happens, and for a week or two The Press, not to mention politicians, pretend that it actually gives a damn about the going-ons of reserves. Sadly, this too will pass and problems on reserves will be relegated to fillers or not discussed at all… until of course the next tragic thing happens, and rest assured, it will happen, sooner or later it always does.

Just a little fyi, if you pretend a problem that definitely exists does not, it won’t go away. You have to actually do something about it.

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