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> Umm, there are no "native towns" in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reserves_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_rese

by sedachv 11y ago

> Umm, there are no "native towns" in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reserves_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reserves_in_Can... Most of those have towns in them. > However, we don't tend to have the same level of urban blight and decay as you see in some American cities. There are plenty of run-down areas and derelict industrial objects in and around Montreal. It is true you cannot compare Montreal to select cities like Detroit or Newark, but that is because the urban blight there is exclusively a product of systemic racism against blacks in the United States. This is why it makes more sense to compare Detroit to Native towns. Indigenous people in Canada face blatant and open discrimination today that is comparable to what blacks face in the United States.

flubert 11y ago
>the urban blight there is exclusively a product of systemic racism against blacks in the United States. https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=detroit+industrial+ruins https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=detroit+indus...
- sedachv 11y ago
  Median household income in Detroit: $26,325 83% black (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2622000.html) Walk a block over to Grosse Point: $89,492 93% white (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe,_Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe,_Michigan) Royal Oak: $52,252 90% white (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Oak,_Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Oak,_Michigan) Livonia: $68,973 92% white (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2649000.html http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2649000.html)