Nice people fit in
Nice people are privileged
Nice people benefit from the status quo
Nice people allow the oppressive status quo
Nice people are sociopaths in allowing the status quo
Nice people have less work that would make them not nice
Nice people benefit from the work other people do to make it nice
Nice people scare me, nice people annoy me, nice people avoid me
Nice people are privileged
Nice people benefit from the status quo
Nice people allow the oppressive status quo
Nice people are sociopaths in allowing the status quo
Nice people have less work that would make them not nice
Nice people benefit from the work other people do to make it nice
Nice people scare me, nice people annoy me, nice people avoid me

Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Ontario Algonquin land claims and self-government process. She has three books: Anishinaabeg Stories: Featuring Petroglyphs, Petrographs, and Wampum Belts, The Truth that Wampum Tells: My Debwewin of the Algonquin Land Claims Process, and Mkadengwe: Sharing Canada's Colonial Process through Black Face Methodology. You can reach her at lynngehl@gmail.com and see more of her work at www.lynngehl.com.