Inuit have an accommodating society

This is article is so one-sided (Gossip leads to firing of GN worker, Nov. 5). We as a new territory are experiencing new growing pains.

From time immemorial, Inuit have been the most accommodating society experiencing colonization, subjected to relocation, forced to give up our way of life, and forced to attend schools to attain education, and we are now the most racist people in society?

Obviously, this person is disillusioned about an incident that happened within one department and community, but his comments are atrociously maliciously untrue. Not all Inuit people are racist, not one society is racist, at some point in time, racism occurs, but incidentally and unfortunately this happened to this person and he paints a picture that all Inuit people are racist. I demand a retraction of this unfair, malicious comment in your newspaper.

As the spokesperson for the department said, this is a employer-employee issue and should have remained within the realm of the department.

Joan Kalaserk
Rankin Inlet

Editor’s note: Harbir Boparai’s allegations are supported by e-mails, letters and faxes produced by GN employees. If those allegations were “malicious and untrue,” we’re sure the GN would have contacted us by now to have them corrected. They haven’t. We have no intention of retracting any of the words published in the story.