..Oh Canada ... racist attack on Black man caught on vid,..

[Fyah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JAmerican Ooman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The WG's in the video called Jay an African-American even though I thought Jay said he was born in Canada.. whamek??
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They probably thought that if they called him &quot;black&quot; they would have been seen as racist and politically incorrect. LOL!

[SistahD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JAmerican Ooman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The WG's in the video called Jay an African-American even though I thought Jay said he was born in Canada.. whamek??
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He was making a feeble attempt at using a politically correct term, not knowing the difference between AA and Black-Canadian (Afri-Canadian, or Afro-Canadian) etc

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistahD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
He was making a feeble attempt at using a politically correct term, not knowing the difference between AA and Black-Canadian (Afri-Canadian, or Afro-Canadian) etc
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I think so too.

[X]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: xKs</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=Nunya]
I am happy he fought back. I am happy that he's now got them on the run.

Bravo. </div></div>

Also happy it was caught on video.

Cell phones!!!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">sorry he didnt have a 9 to terminate dem ra--ss.... and the dog too. </div></div>
Then you wouldn't have seen the part we are seeing now. Since it would have been deemed not important. <span style="font-weight: bold">And the usual headline will be the talk of the summer. complete with a few other blacks being lynched without ant public media coverage. <span style="text-decoration: underline">I think it went as well as a bad experience could have</span>.</span> That is why We know so much about Martin Luther King. Ir is the lack of violence from him. Revenge is not justice. It usually is the way to lose justice and freedoms. </div></div>

so very true.

[britisha]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SPOTS</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JAmerican Ooman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The WG's in the video called Jay an African-American even though I thought Jay said he was born in Canada.. whamek??
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They probably thought that if they called him &quot;black&quot; they would have been seen as racist and politically incorrect. LOL! </div></div>

Exactly, news media personnel don't think it is PC to call a person &quot;black&quot; and in fact are forbidden to do so...anihoo, why couldn't they say &quot;Arican-Canadian&quot;?


Is there such a terminology in Canada?

[X]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SPOTS</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JAmerican Ooman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The WG's in the video called Jay an African-American even though I thought Jay said he was born in Canada.. whamek??
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They probably thought that if they called him &quot;black&quot; they would have been seen as racist and politically incorrect. LOL! </div></div>

Exactly, news media personnel don't think it is PC to call a person &quot;black&quot; and in fact are forbidden to do so...anihoo, why couldn't they say &quot;Arican-Canadian&quot;?


Is there such a terminology in Canada? </div></div>
nope
ever wonder y africans laff at the term african-american.. different topic..

[britisha]

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Racism put them in this pickle, as far as *I* am concerned, let them stay there and stew.

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you read what I wrote in the thread you will see that I refer to this being an embarrassment to the country of Canada as a whole, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 17pt">as many (probably most)here believe we are more accepting of racial minorities</span></span>. Are we? </div></div>

Look from when mi try fi reveal the fact that Canada is racist through and through. Now we have articles about this constantly in the newpaper.
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I guess there are those who could argue that topic to no end. Tropi can shed more light on that than I.
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I'm not going to waste another second trying to shed light on it. One of my main reasons for coming here in the first place was to expose the truth and the realities of being Black in Canada. So did dhajah. Many others who live here attacked me, scapegoated me and tried to pretend nutten noh go soh.

<span style="font-weight: bold">MI DONE TALK!!</span>

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

but where on earth do ppl think these type of things never happen

Canadians are known to be more &quot;polite&quot; with their racism but it is still racism. I mean I can at least deal concretely with someone's left hook than I can with a person behind a desk denying me a loan b/c of the color of my skin.
That is harder to fight up against.

Canada may have less of such occurences than say compared to the USA but I'd never feel that such things cannot happen here. Of course there are racists in any place.
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Polite. :lol: You mean HYPOCRITICAL don't you?

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo
I'm sure if you look deep enough into that longah den de rivah nile spreadsheet of yours you'll seet.
Wid fi yuh memory yuh really mean seh yuh nevah si anybody seh dem tiyad ppl like tropicana how shi bring up dese topics all de while?.

wadeva </div></div>

Thank you dahjah.

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Canadains have a &quot;we are more civilized than Americans&quot; mentality and this was a cold slap in the face. </div></div>


Says who? Oh please Milo.....don't make me


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lovely, I thought this stuff doesn't happen anymore.

Shame on those who keep bringing up racist topics. </div></div>

You tell dem dahjah.

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: britisha</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lorn, I don't know where you live, but here in the Wormy Apple the news is filled with &quot;hate crimes&quot; from either camp...

Only last night they reported and showed where a BLACK transvestite was allegedly beaten by BLACK attackers...these things are common in the news here, so we *do* hear about &quot;bias and hate crimes.&quot;.

You must also remember that &quot;whites&quot; beating on &quot;blacks&quot; has been as American as &quot;Apple Pie&quot;...sad but true.

Have a nice day.

Check the title &quot;Oh CA-nada.&quot;

Is Canada imitating America?

Is America imitating Canada?

Was this Ca-nada's dirty little secret all along? </div></div>

Yup and I have been shouting it from the rooftop ever since I landed on Board Lane.

[Tropicana]

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American police don't have a monopoly on handling situations &quot;stupidly&quot; (to quote your President )

Police condemned for profiling of letter carrier

Please note:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 20pt">Phipps immigrated to Toronto from Jamaica as a child</span> </span>with his parents and seven brothers and sisters.

&quot;I had no idea what racism was until I came to Canada.&quot;

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> They also had instructions to investigate cut phone lines and look for suspects described as male, white and eastern European who were seen in a car.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that by stopping Phipps on March 9, 2005, questioning him, trailing him and asking a white letter carrier to verify his identity, Shaw was guilty of racial profiling.

The fact that Phipps &quot;was an African-Canadian in an affluent neighbourhood was a factor, a significant factor, and probably the predominant factor, whether consciously or unconsciously, in Const. Shaw's actions,&quot; adjudicator Kaye Joachim wrote in her decision last month.

At the hearing, Shaw contended each of Phipps' actions was suspicious, despite his uniform.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> &quot;I do not accept Const. Shaw's evidence that the applicant was crossing the street back and forth in an unusual fashion. Const. Shaw was well aware that letter carriers do not stop at every house. It was not unusual to misdeliver mail and to go back and try to retrieve it.

&quot;The fact that it was an African-Canadian male without a vehicle that attracted Const. Shaw's attention is what is unusual,&quot; wrote Joachim.

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[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Police condemned for profiling of letter carrier
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A response posted in the star: &quot;This story/article does not tell the full story of racial profiling. I am black, but to be fair I will try to look at the issue from both sides. Policing in a large Metropolitan city such as Toronto is very difficult and dangerous.Police in Toronto have the additional challenge of having to deal with people of very diverse backgrounds.Let's not lose sight of the fact that the police are humans first - with emotions.Having said that,a few years ago a male colleague and I (he was black)were on shift and doing some building rounds when we were approached by a young white police officer.The police officer was quite rude in demanding what we doing.The police officer was not subtle in openly hovering his right hand close to his holstered pistol.However, I still have a measure of respect for the police but would be quite happy to see more black,brown,caramel faces in the force. As a matter of fact , I have yet to see an Aboriginal Canadian police officer in a Metropolitan city.&quot;

I have to say I am suspicious about people who use a medium favourable to anonymity to say that 'they are black' but then go on to say dumb shyte...