User talk:Amw 11

Repercussions for speaking out for Tina Fontaine’s family

I spoke out in capital letters for the abuse Tina Fontaine suffered because this reflected my experiences as a teen and I felt that the suspect should at least answer for statutory rape I was given a post that I should be deported and that I was a savage.

Comments like that reveal that there is still a problem with racism. My father is from Iran and my Mother 1/4 Blackfeet American. How did the person who said I should be deported and I was a savage know that?

My life has been threatened because I spoke out for justice for Tina Fontaine and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada, I live in fear and shame. I have served Canada in Navy Cadets, Geriatrics, Pediatrics, public schools and volunteer work. Yet now, I am being marginalized as someone who deserves to be deported and die.

No one spoke up for me when I was abused and so now I am speaking up for others: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me by Pastor Martin Niemoller

It is time for us to speak out for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women