We Know You're Sorry - Leonard Sumner [VIDEO]

Anishinaabe MC, Leonard Sumner drops a lyrical bomb to make you understand why sometimes sorry is not enough. Take in the power of the spoken word piece ‘I Know You’re Sorry’ and if you feel it peep his latest album, Thunderbird. Some of the songs deal with lesser publicized issues like the child welfare system and residential schools. Recently, news headlines were plastered with the gruesome uncovering of a mass grave at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. The mass grave was discovered at one of Canada’s largest residential schools in Kamloops with the bodies of Indigenous children, some as young as 3 years old. Residential schools are one of the institutions ran by the Catholic church that held children taken from families across the nation. Sumner’s mission is he’s trying to address root issues like this and many others through his lyrics while telling a story.