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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queenb</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Doesn't surprise me. I was speaking with an older friend of the family who was in high school when the Sir George Williams affair hit. She said that up until then, Canada had a reputation for racial tolerance. It was a REAL eye opener and shocker for her to hear the racist comments and venom poured out against Black and Caribbean people on radio talk shows.
Nothing surprises me about the way Canadians react and I have been licking out 'gainst the racism and hypocrisy ever since I set foot on Board Lane. Next point.... </div></div>
Tropicana, I think your friend has a limited memory of Canada. I don't know when/where this Sir George Williams incident occured, but maybe your friend's memories are just specific to where ever she grew up. My g'dad was born Canadian, lived in Toronto and later in Alberta; and he told me that he had been called a ni**er more times than I "had hair on my head". </div></div>
Yes if your Dad grew up in Alberta, they are WAY more red neck and upfront about their racism out there. Can't speak for Toronto back in the day. Now is pure skin teeth and stab in the back when you're not looking. I never said that no one was ever called the N word, just that the society has a veneer of hyposcrisy. It's what Mortimer Planno calls "polite violence":
<span style="font-weight: bold">Tune in at 2:07.</span>
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Sir Goerge incident? It took place in Montreal at what is now Concordia university. A lot of Caribbean students were involved including Rosie Douglas who was deported. He eventually became Prime Minister of Dominica.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">n what seems like a dash of historical understatement, Mills says the February 1969 occupation of the new computer centre in the Henry F. Hall building at SGW “ended badly with the blows of riot police, the destruction of $2,000,000 of property, and scores of arrests and criminal charges.” (That’s computer paper streaming from the charred and vandalized building).
Yet he still sees the event as a critical moment for Montreal’s black community – the dawn of what Mills calls Montreal’s black renaissance at a time when the American civil rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and the rise of the Black Panthers put questions of racial equality on the public agenda.
“The Sir George Williams Affairs has generally been left out of narratives chronicling political developments in Montreal during the 1960s,” Mills writes. “It has been seen as either an aberration or, at best, a matter of secondary importance to the struggle between two linguistic groups
“When it is remembered, it is generally portrayed as an event having relevance only for Black Canadians, and as a conflict that had little impact outside the circles of Black Montreal. Such representations distort both the impact of this event on other sectors of society, and the ways in which the protest formed part of a larger atmosphere of revolt that prevailed in the city.”</div></div>
He is right. White students were involved and arrested too but this was shoved under the rug.
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2010/04...ocial-activism/
Nothing surprises me about the way Canadians react and I have been licking out 'gainst the racism and hypocrisy ever since I set foot on Board Lane. Next point.... </div></div>
Tropicana, I think your friend has a limited memory of Canada. I don't know when/where this Sir George Williams incident occured, but maybe your friend's memories are just specific to where ever she grew up. My g'dad was born Canadian, lived in Toronto and later in Alberta; and he told me that he had been called a ni**er more times than I "had hair on my head". </div></div>
Yes if your Dad grew up in Alberta, they are WAY more red neck and upfront about their racism out there. Can't speak for Toronto back in the day. Now is pure skin teeth and stab in the back when you're not looking. I never said that no one was ever called the N word, just that the society has a veneer of hyposcrisy. It's what Mortimer Planno calls "polite violence":
<span style="font-weight: bold">Tune in at 2:07.</span>
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Sir Goerge incident? It took place in Montreal at what is now Concordia university. A lot of Caribbean students were involved including Rosie Douglas who was deported. He eventually became Prime Minister of Dominica.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">n what seems like a dash of historical understatement, Mills says the February 1969 occupation of the new computer centre in the Henry F. Hall building at SGW “ended badly with the blows of riot police, the destruction of $2,000,000 of property, and scores of arrests and criminal charges.” (That’s computer paper streaming from the charred and vandalized building).
Yet he still sees the event as a critical moment for Montreal’s black community – the dawn of what Mills calls Montreal’s black renaissance at a time when the American civil rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and the rise of the Black Panthers put questions of racial equality on the public agenda.
“The Sir George Williams Affairs has generally been left out of narratives chronicling political developments in Montreal during the 1960s,” Mills writes. “It has been seen as either an aberration or, at best, a matter of secondary importance to the struggle between two linguistic groups
“When it is remembered, it is generally portrayed as an event having relevance only for Black Canadians, and as a conflict that had little impact outside the circles of Black Montreal. Such representations distort both the impact of this event on other sectors of society, and the ways in which the protest formed part of a larger atmosphere of revolt that prevailed in the city.”</div></div>
He is right. White students were involved and arrested too but this was shoved under the rug.
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2010/04...ocial-activism/
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