Probably got a bad batch of meth or something,” a tall blonde with a pixie cut cackled to her friends. “Well, I heard she went down to that rec centre to score drugs. “I heard she was giving blow jobs for twenty bucks down by the river bank,” one girl said, smirking. Aboriginal women were going missing or being killed across the country and the police just ignored it and turned a blind eye.Ī group of girls passed us in the hallway, talking loudly.
We all knew to the police that equalled a high-risk, unwanted kid who got what she deserved. But given the history of the police with the Aboriginal community, I wasn’t that surprised. I was outraged and – and terrified for Carli.
While there has been much discussion and focus on the plight of indigenous women in Canadian society recently, it is a work like Melanie Florence’s The Missing that helps bring understanding and empathy to them.
But it is through a good work of literature that one truly gains some insight and understanding to how a situation affects certainly members of our society. There are many issues that come to our attention via the news. Melanie Florence will be participating at the 2017 Toronto Word on the Street festival
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