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Evening.....while this thread is US-Centric, lets not kid ourselves that Canada is any better. Yes the US has over 300 million people compared to our over 30 million people, but the same 'fracture' can be seen once you move out of the major cities i.e. Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa.
One rhetoric we've heard since this who malarkey started is..."we're not all the same" from the police and the continuous denial of institutional racism. Point in case, premier of Ontario today said this.....
" Doug Ford says Canada doesn’t have the “systemic, deep roots” of racism that the United States does.
Ford was asked today to comment on the protests in cities across the U.S. that were sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Ford, who spent a lot of time in the U.S. for his family’s label business, said the difference between the two countries is that in Canada, people for the most part get along, working and shopping together."
https://globalnews.ca/news/7017967/doug-ford-george-floyd-racism/
How can a Caucasian white male speak on behalf of minorities and what they have to endure from birth all the way till they die? This also plays into that aloofness / denial that such things happen here in Canada.
Take the CAF for example, Operation Honour came about due to a final admittance of a behaviour that has been going on and proven for decades. One doesn't need to be a genius to see that the continuing denial is simply a matter of attempts to evade wrong doing and acceptance of daily facts that minorities are going through. I mean to use a different analogy, Ford's comments is akin to a man pretending to know what women go through during pregnancy.
The majority also has to quit telling minorities "they have a chip on their shoulder" or " they're playing the race card"...these are idiotic comments someone with a privilege will utter as defence mechanisms, to shutdown ignorant behaviours. While everyone will agree that all lives matter, you have to ask yourself...if this was the case all along and all citizens regardless of their colour creed or gender truly got treated the same, we won't have Black Lives Matter. Cops that keep saying they have a few bad apples, the question to those departments, what are you the good apples doing to root out these bad apples bringing shame to your departments????? Clearly sweet F'all! Instead what you get is cover up like suspension with pay, only to bring the people back for them to do it all over again and again. Chavin had 18 complaints again, 18 and he somehow was still allowed to patrol the streets.
Oh...lets not pretend this isn't happening in the Military as well, and the way this usually ends is with a mbr being ostracized, bypassed for opportunities like deployments or dinged with the PER system. Well of course it's always going to be hard for someone to claim their PER is not justified because of payback for an incident relating to a race issue. It's always going to be advantageous for an organization to have a diverse group of people, and by diverse I don't mean male/female, to better have a well diverse opinion and perspectives, this way you're better poised for any international engagements, or dealing with other diverse organizations.
I can't say I'm surprised by the story in the link below. Many other similar stories emerging of people turning this into a thing
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ep4xdm/canada-border-services-fires-employee-after-racist-video-mocks-george-floyd?utm_source=vicecanadafbca&utm_medium=social
One rhetoric we've heard since this who malarkey started is..."we're not all the same" from the police and the continuous denial of institutional racism. Point in case, premier of Ontario today said this.....
" Doug Ford says Canada doesn’t have the “systemic, deep roots” of racism that the United States does.
Ford was asked today to comment on the protests in cities across the U.S. that were sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Ford, who spent a lot of time in the U.S. for his family’s label business, said the difference between the two countries is that in Canada, people for the most part get along, working and shopping together."
https://globalnews.ca/news/7017967/doug-ford-george-floyd-racism/
How can a Caucasian white male speak on behalf of minorities and what they have to endure from birth all the way till they die? This also plays into that aloofness / denial that such things happen here in Canada.
Take the CAF for example, Operation Honour came about due to a final admittance of a behaviour that has been going on and proven for decades. One doesn't need to be a genius to see that the continuing denial is simply a matter of attempts to evade wrong doing and acceptance of daily facts that minorities are going through. I mean to use a different analogy, Ford's comments is akin to a man pretending to know what women go through during pregnancy.
The majority also has to quit telling minorities "they have a chip on their shoulder" or " they're playing the race card"...these are idiotic comments someone with a privilege will utter as defence mechanisms, to shutdown ignorant behaviours. While everyone will agree that all lives matter, you have to ask yourself...if this was the case all along and all citizens regardless of their colour creed or gender truly got treated the same, we won't have Black Lives Matter. Cops that keep saying they have a few bad apples, the question to those departments, what are you the good apples doing to root out these bad apples bringing shame to your departments????? Clearly sweet F'all! Instead what you get is cover up like suspension with pay, only to bring the people back for them to do it all over again and again. Chavin had 18 complaints again, 18 and he somehow was still allowed to patrol the streets.
Oh...lets not pretend this isn't happening in the Military as well, and the way this usually ends is with a mbr being ostracized, bypassed for opportunities like deployments or dinged with the PER system. Well of course it's always going to be hard for someone to claim their PER is not justified because of payback for an incident relating to a race issue. It's always going to be advantageous for an organization to have a diverse group of people, and by diverse I don't mean male/female, to better have a well diverse opinion and perspectives, this way you're better poised for any international engagements, or dealing with other diverse organizations.
I can't say I'm surprised by the story in the link below. Many other similar stories emerging of people turning this into a thing
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ep4xdm/canada-border-services-fires-employee-after-racist-video-mocks-george-floyd?utm_source=vicecanadafbca&utm_medium=social
