I am not clear on what you mean, here. If someone is an alcoholic, white or minority or Native, they're going to be more likely to be violent, abusive, criminal, etc.
Is it just a higher rate of alcoholism among Aboriginals that explains their higher incarceration rate?
if you'll pardon the unintended pun, there are no blacks and whites in discussing the subject of racial characteristics and how they affect people's ability to fit into a particular society - just shades of grey. many questions have many answers, and you have to have spent a lifetime among the subjects to even grasp a tiny bit of what drives the problem. add to that human individuality, and you have a true enigma
one thing is for sure - no matter how difficult a matter is, the courts cannot be seen to be endorsing injustice - against one or any identifiable part of society, and injustice is what this ruling endorses
in my opinion, the supreme court has missed the point entirely. our national legislation is completely flawed in that it treats natives as children, which they are decidedly not. the sooner the laws that promote apartheid in canada are repealed, the sooner the natives can begin to adapt to the present reality. if the supreme court justices cannot see this, then justice is truly blind
