February 2012
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mycatreadsmydiary:
Hard Truths: Minority Scholarships
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White Men are the new minority. They can’t get scholarships for school because of the colored and lady folk. Except, that’s not true. Not even a little bit. […]
Well, I have the numbers for the Nationwide study. I’ll admit it, these are the numbers that dance in my head when I hear “White people/white...
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No offense but…
I recently had a fight with someone I consider a friend, and day three after the event, I am still trying to deconstruct how it all went so wrong. This ordinarily would not be blog material, except that the situation is all too familiar, for me, and no doubt for many others.
I think these situations can come about in three different ways:
Someone says something she or he knows is offensive,...
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Judge calls residential schools a form of genocide...
The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in residential schools was an act of genocide.
Justice Murray Sinclair says the United Nations defines genocide to include the removal of children based on race, then placing them with another race to indoctrinate them. He says Canada has been...
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Question for you all: "How do we create alliances...
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Jorge Antonio Vallejos–Black Coffee Poet
Jorge Antonio Vallejos–Black Coffee Poet–is a mixed race, Toronto based, poet, essayist, and journalist. He is the creator of blackcoffeepoet.com. Son to a Peruvian mother (and Arab father) who introduced him to books at two weeks of age with regular trips to the local library, Black Coffee Poet developed a love for books quickly.
Losing himself in novels written by Gordon Korman as a...
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things i wish i'd learned in high school
lovebelikeawhirlwind:
everything in your history books, with few exceptions, is filtered through the lens of white Eurocentric eliminationst thought. you will only learn what a board of educators, working with a biased, racist agenda, decide is fit for you to know unless you go out and educate yourself. unless you sit down, shut up, and listen to other voices
history is not something you absorb...
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“The phrase “politically correct” can be used in two distinct ways:...”
– Zuky: The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”
Of course not everyone that identifies as Black also identifies as African-American, etc, but I do not think that is what Zuky is implying.
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WHAT IS “WHITE PRIVILEGE”?
White privilege is one issue that must be confronted as a precondition to releasing the energy required to successfully challenge institutional racism. It is the collection of benefits based on belonging to a group perceived to be white, when the same or similar benefits are denied to members of other groups. It is the benefit of access to resources and social rewards and the power to shape the...
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IS THERE SUCH THING AS “REVERSE RACISM”?
In short, no.
Many white people claim to have experienced mistreatment, prejudice, or racism from people of colour. This claim may be used to justify stereotyping and mistreatment of people of colour. But racism is institutional, the power is always on the side of the institutions, which in Canada favour white people. Anyone from any group can have personal attitudes of prejudice towards others...
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Africville: A Community Displaced
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The History of Africville As Told by the People of Africville
By Irvine Carvery
Most references to the founding of the community of Africville say it was started by refugees of the War of 1812. These new Black immigrants, who were former slaves in the Chesapeake area of the United States, had fought for the British Crown, with the promise of freedom for their participation. When the war...
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“Jim Crow refers to the practice of racial segregation that occurred in the...”
– In-Development
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“On Wednesday April 14th, 64 years after she was dragged out of Roseland Theatre,...”
– Renee Martin, Viola Desmond is not Canada’s Rosa Parks
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Black Migration and Loyalists in Nova Scotia
BLACK MIGRATION
Important dates in the establishment of Black communities in the Maritimes:
1782-85 About 3,500 Blacks fled to what is now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick at the close of the American Revolution. They had fought for Britain in return for freedom. Once in the Maritimes, they were cheated of land, forced to work on public projects such as roads and buildings and denied equal...
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