No, your comment is racist - let me explain why. If someone does not allow for discussion of problematic issues, then they call 'racist' in an attempt (conscious or not) to shut down discussion and to put the person who pointed out some inconvenient truths on the defensive. Listen, the insult 'racist' just doesn't mean what it use to. Also if the first nations are going to strive to identify themselves as a distinct racial group, unique in the Canadian multicultural mosaic, then it would be expected that others will start to see them as a group and make observations (it's what people do) so it's not being racist - it's being obliging to what this group desires. So time to get into the discussion and try to make some improvements so that people have a better life.