Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Finding Dawn Paragraph
I find the details of the of the Robert Pickton crime investigation as presented in these articles to be absolutely abhorrent. It is obvious, through the hesitation of the police department and the way the family members of the missing women were treated, that racism played a part in the (possibly four-year-long) delay of Robert Pickton's arrest, and, as a Canadian, I find that unacceptable. We like to think that we're accepting; that our multicultural status somehow means that we are incapable of falling to the human trap of apathy, but all it takes is one case like this to open our eyes to the bleak fact that we're not as compassionate for every type of Canadian as we'd like to believe. What sickens me the most is that no one is admitting to their mistakes. They're trying to protect ignorance and bias through meaningless debates over jurisdiction. Maybe I'm overstepping but I do not believe that Dawn's family cares one ounce which police force finds their daughter as long as she is found and her killer is brought to justice. It seems to me that our society is doing something wrong if protocol and the colour of someone's skin is taking precedence over human life.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment