I appreciate the upload. Great Series. In the first episode shown, I am glad the Indigenous got some of the land back officially, they should never have had to pay for anyway. That's a good thing. But also... Makes me sad the insecurity placed on Hudson, by the Indigenous individual in that particular episode. Since the episode basically made a statement, I am going to make one. As an Indigenous person myself, I abhor the guilt trips against others that are unfounded. Hudson was following the evidence. He may have made an incorrect assumption, and it is true we all must be careful about assumptions in delicate or dangerous situations. But investigative process requires investigation! You have to think about various possibilities from as many angles as you can. That's what it takes to get at the truth. Unfortunately, that sometimes (and this series shows it often when 'persons of color' are not involved) means a person is considered guilty when they are not. In this same episode, they thought that pasty pale white person was guilty, too! That can't possibly be construed as 'color' prejudice. A person has to work with what they have to work with! That's what the whole team was doing, they were all open to the evidence and dedicated to truth. What they had to go on when the whole thing started, was misinformation, it takes time to correct embedded information, and in this case they did not hesitate to accept what was real over what had been fabricated. They had the integrity to dig deeply enough trying to understand it all. We can fairly ask no more than that. And just because SOME people NOT ALL, tend to be 'color prejudice', doesn't follow that it only goes white to dark. It isn't right either way, and that woman was rude. Maybe if she'd tried to be more helpful, they would have come closer to the truth sooner. Maybe not. But there was no excuse for her to blame Hudson for wrongdoing. He wasn't part of the original case 22 years previously; And he was trying to get at the truth. Yes, he suspected she was guilty, but that was a result of following the current evidence and misinformation from the past. If he, or anyone on the team had been entrenched in dark-color-prejudice, they never would have found out the truth. For him to feel guilty over something that he was innocent of, is not a plus. And, the irony in that particular instance, is sadly obvious. That something wrong happened 22 years ago, is no excuse for perpetuating a wrong in-the-now and pretending someone has a character defect they do not -- worse still, getting them to believe they do when they don't. Not okay.
I appreciate the upload. Great Series. In the first episode shown, I am glad the Indigenous got some of the land back officially, they should never have had to pay for anyway. That's a good thing. But also... Makes me sad the insecurity placed on Hudson, by the Indigenous individual in that particular episode. Since the episode basically made a statement, I am going to make one. As an Indigenous person myself, I abhor the guilt trips against others that are unfounded. Hudson was following the evidence. He may have made an incorrect assumption, and it is true we all must be careful about assumptions in delicate or dangerous situations. But investigative process requires investigation! You have to think about various possibilities from as many angles as you can. That's what it takes to get at the truth. Unfortunately, that sometimes (and this series shows it often when 'persons of color' are not involved) means a person is considered guilty when they are not. In this same episode, they thought that pasty pale white person was guilty, too! That can't possibly be construed as 'color' prejudice.
A person has to work with what they have to work with! That's what the whole team was doing, they were all open to the evidence and dedicated to truth. What they had to go on when the whole thing started, was misinformation, it takes time to correct embedded information, and in this case they did not hesitate to accept what was real over what had been fabricated. They had the integrity to dig deeply enough trying to understand it all. We can fairly ask no more than that.
And just because SOME people NOT ALL, tend to be 'color prejudice', doesn't follow that it only goes white to dark. It isn't right either way, and that woman was rude. Maybe if she'd tried to be more helpful, they would have come closer to the truth sooner. Maybe not. But there was no excuse for her to blame Hudson for wrongdoing. He wasn't part of the original case 22 years previously; And he was trying to get at the truth. Yes, he suspected she was guilty, but that was a result of following the current evidence and misinformation from the past.
If he, or anyone on the team had been entrenched in dark-color-prejudice, they never would have found out the truth. For him to feel guilty over something that he was innocent of, is not a plus. And, the irony in that particular instance, is sadly obvious. That something wrong happened 22 years ago, is no excuse for perpetuating a wrong in-the-now and pretending someone has a character defect they do not -- worse still, getting them to believe they do when they don't. Not okay.