We had so many calls this week asking if we wrote about the Justin Trudeau brown and black face controversy. Yes’oh we did! This is our sense of reason right here on this link. Just to re-affirm that brown and black communities have bigger fishes to fry and don’t want to be treated like a political football all the time. Sad to remind you that most of those outraged by this issue are motivated by politics and not by love for brown and black communities.
As a matter of fact, we’re taking this issue up a notch by asking the Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer campaigns to share with us any policy proposal that they have to address the issues of: doctors driving taxis, engineers scrubbing washrooms, and indigenous communities drinking water unfit to flush toilets. Or better still if they have any proposal to improve minority inclusion, racism, and discrimination in this wonderful country called, Canada.
Ladies and gentlemen, great supporters, and lovely audience, for far too long minorities have been used as political football by people who talk but didn’t support their talk with action. This is undoubtedly the reason why we are still faced with high levels of the horrible issues of racism and discrimination. You want to stay focus on the issues that matter to us and not be distracted by things that others say because they are paid to say, or because their political party ask them to.
We can guess that in the next 50 years, you want your grand kids to read what you wrote about key issues today and not be embarrassed. Or rather, when they read about your position on key issues today, they will be proud to say that, “grand pa or grand ma did that for us”. “Thank you grand pa!” “Thank you grand ma!”. You know what, just imagine how the great great grand kids of African Americans who supported slavery feel about their great great grand mum and dad today? Oh! yes in the same way some people pretend not to see anything wrong with horrible things happening around them. Also, they try to distract you either because they are bought, or because they’re towing their party line. Do not be surprised that some African Americans supported slavery because they benefited from it. Well, sadly, some people speak to the flavour of their bank accounts and not their minds, conscience or the future of your kids.
When you have the largest reach in the multicultural community in Alberta, you can either use that influence for good or for bad. Guess what? We’ll always use it to be a voice for the voiceless weak and poor Canadians, it’s why we go out weekly to share what you are doing. Why not you?
If you got here, it means you like the work we do in telling the untold community stories across Alberta, using our numerous platforms. With only $10/month support from you, we can tell even more stories, and invite you to join our VIP Quarterly Strategic Leadership Meeting to get your input on our community coverage. Please click on this link to go to our Patron account, https://www.patreon.com/diversitymagazine
