Rae1889
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I saw this article this morning and it made me sick. How some people can judge other people by the way they look, or a label. This article is about the Label of "Homeless" and "alcoholic". This man is considered both of them. but despite the down and outs he had, he still risked his life TWICE to save a two people from the currents of the fast moving Red River. Both times he was drunk.
The first time he saved someone was in May last year. Some stupid teen was horsing around on a bridge with some friends. he thought it would be funny to scare them, and pretend to jump off the bridge. His intentions were to land on the lower beams and then climb back up. well it didnt work and he fell. Faron didnt hesitate at all to jump in to save him. he risked his own life to save someone he didnt know. The paramedics afterward didnt even speak to him, or give him a blanket to warm up with. Its, may and its cold here still. there was still ice outside. and they were letting him freeze. They even had him arrested and dropped off at the drunk tank. Cold, wet and sick.
Second time, his 2 friends and drinking buddies fell in. boyfriend and girlfriend. he beat himself up so bad that he was only able to save the girl. Then later on, he was beat up from the news attention that he associated with the 2 people. and then the girl was murdered by a shop owner when she got caught stealing a can of ham. he beat her in the head with a baseball bat over ham. because she was homeless and stealling. he figured she was no good trash.
Now poor Faron is in the hospital again. This time for more serious injuries. He was stabbed on saturday.
The common link between these 2 people were that they were both homeless and they were both natives. natives in our city have a bad reputation. Most are not the glorious. proud people. Most dont try and do good. most are drug addicts, alcoholics, prositutes etc. and they blame the white people. and the white people blame them. but even in Winnipeg, the colour of your skin and you background seem to matter. even though it is illegal, there is racism and sterotyping everywhere. no matter who you are.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...fter-stabbing-83731037.html?viewAllComments=y
This opens my eyes to everything out there that I am labeled as. Woman, Young adult, Punk, non-catholic, non christian, white, short, small, epileptic, asthmatic etc. and all the sterotypes that go with them. Every "hat" I wear, there is negative out put for it.
What "hats" do you wear and what have the general responses been to that "hat"? ex: being a young mother, or someone with a dyed green mohawk?
I saw this article this morning and it made me sick. How some people can judge other people by the way they look, or a label. This article is about the Label of "Homeless" and "alcoholic". This man is considered both of them. but despite the down and outs he had, he still risked his life TWICE to save a two people from the currents of the fast moving Red River. Both times he was drunk.
The first time he saved someone was in May last year. Some stupid teen was horsing around on a bridge with some friends. he thought it would be funny to scare them, and pretend to jump off the bridge. His intentions were to land on the lower beams and then climb back up. well it didnt work and he fell. Faron didnt hesitate at all to jump in to save him. he risked his own life to save someone he didnt know. The paramedics afterward didnt even speak to him, or give him a blanket to warm up with. Its, may and its cold here still. there was still ice outside. and they were letting him freeze. They even had him arrested and dropped off at the drunk tank. Cold, wet and sick.
Second time, his 2 friends and drinking buddies fell in. boyfriend and girlfriend. he beat himself up so bad that he was only able to save the girl. Then later on, he was beat up from the news attention that he associated with the 2 people. and then the girl was murdered by a shop owner when she got caught stealing a can of ham. he beat her in the head with a baseball bat over ham. because she was homeless and stealling. he figured she was no good trash.
Now poor Faron is in the hospital again. This time for more serious injuries. He was stabbed on saturday.
The common link between these 2 people were that they were both homeless and they were both natives. natives in our city have a bad reputation. Most are not the glorious. proud people. Most dont try and do good. most are drug addicts, alcoholics, prositutes etc. and they blame the white people. and the white people blame them. but even in Winnipeg, the colour of your skin and you background seem to matter. even though it is illegal, there is racism and sterotyping everywhere. no matter who you are.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...fter-stabbing-83731037.html?viewAllComments=y
This opens my eyes to everything out there that I am labeled as. Woman, Young adult, Punk, non-catholic, non christian, white, short, small, epileptic, asthmatic etc. and all the sterotypes that go with them. Every "hat" I wear, there is negative out put for it.
What "hats" do you wear and what have the general responses been to that "hat"? ex: being a young mother, or someone with a dyed green mohawk?