Blackstock – supporting equity  

There’s a lot of caring Canadians out there who when they finally find out about these inequalities, they’re shocked and horrified that they never knew before. But they’re still worried about what if I do something wrong? How do I fix this? Maybe I should just stand back. I don’t want to do more harm.  

But that’s what we and the Caring Society have tried to remedy with our ‘Seven  

Free Ways to Make a Difference’ in under two minutes. So, we already have ways that are approved by First Nations in Canada on how you can get involved.  

If you’re an early childhood educator, you can sign up for those campaigns for equity in education, child welfare, the Spirit Bear plan, all kinds of things. We really try to make it easy for people of good conscience who want to join with us in a community of rectifying the colonialism both past and present. 

So as early childhood educators, whether you have a First Nations child in your classroom or not, you have a duty, in fact, an obligation to join the chorus and say that First Nations children are worth the money. And the time for racial discrimination and inequality is over in this country. No child, either a First Nations child enduring that inequality or non-Indigenous children growing up in a society where that’s normalized. No one should tolerate that.