An Anecdote from Free Northerner

Sunday, May 1st, 2016

Free Northerner shares an anecdote from his life in Canada:

Recently, I was downtown walking to my truck after an evening out. An aboriginal women in her 30’s approached. She was obviously either somewhat drunk or high (or possibly mentally ill). She could talk clearly and walk straight, but was noticeably ‘off’, she tended to repeat herself and seemed paranoid. I haven’t had enough experience with drug users to determine what she had partook in. She asked me for cab fare. I offered a couple of loonies and twonies ($1 and $2 coins, for you Yanks) in my pocket, but she refused.

She then told me, she didn’t need cab fair, she needed me to call her a cab. She said she was afraid and didn’t trust anyone, but she needed to get back to her hotel. Which was odd, because she was trusting me and I was a complete stranger and probably not especially trustworthy-seeming as I looked exceedingly redneck-prol at the time. She didn’t want to call the cab herself because she was afraid they would be “mean” (her word, but by the intonation of it she clearly meant something darker) to her and would not come for her, but they would listen to me. She repeated herself often as we talked, and at one point even offered me $20 to call a cab (after I was already on the phone and which I did not take).

I phoned a cab, as she continued on. She repeated multiple times she was afraid of dying and didn’t trust anyone. She didn’t want to be downtown because bad men might do something to her. (As she talked to me, a strange man with a redneck beard, a heavy metal shirt, and camo jacket), but didn’t want to phone a cab herself, because she didn’t trust them.

The call finished, a cab was coming. She thanked me, repeatedly and profusely, with obvious relief in her eyes. Then offered a handshake, which I took and she held for much longer than normal. She spent the next minute or two switching between thanking me and saying she was afraid. In the middle of her ramblings, she said something in the neighbourhood of ‘I knew I could trust you because you’re white’.

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For those who aren’t from Canada, aboriginal-white relations are akin to black-white relations in the US. Our ghettos are aboriginal neighbourhoods (although, not as bad as American ghettoes), aboriginals have high poverty rates, and aboriginals make up a disproportionately large number of criminals.

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Despite all this, a white man was the one this women turned to when she was afraid.

Comments

  1. Slovenian Guest says:

    Apropos Free Northerner, I recommend his Passivism and Activism posts.

    He pointed out a bitter truth:

    There is no such thing as right-wing activism. The right needs to avoid activism, as it further legitimizes liberal democracy, which is antithetical to right order, tradition, and right authority.

    Case in point, the Tea Party, which was successful activism, yet its only legacy is a straw man for the establishment to beat. On balance it was counterproductive for the cause.

  2. Handle says:

    When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, locals would perceive white Americans to be impartial and fair in any tribal dispute. Good disinterested judges, because detached from the situation and too ignorant of the long and ugly history to even know who the true villains were. Basically everybody.

  3. Slovenian Guest says:

    The same is true in Africa, so i was told, where White people are seen as walking oracles, or prey, there is little middle ground. Someone who visited several sub Saharan countries reluctantly admitted to me, upon returning, that he felt like a true uebermensch everywhere he went, locals literally asked him to count things, count! Settle arguments if there are 6 or 7 oxen on the lot.

    That’s why you are also relatively safe in Africa, except a few places like South Africa, one White live is considered to be worth 100 locals.

    In comparison, they have no such scruples or illusions in Mexico, where every year more White people are killed than in all of Africa combined! I even heard VICE reporters say that Mexico is one place they will not go, North Korea, Liberia, are all fine, but Mexico, “no way, Jose”!

    Jocko talked about Iraqi soldiers who didn’t know how to count as well.

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