Blogs by Canadians of Colour
This blog will no longer be updated.
However, there is a list of blogs by Canadians of colour at my main blog, as well as aggregate feeds:
links for 2008-09-17
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"Understanding and owning privilege does not mean that you must live a life of shame or guilt, it does however mean that you owe a debt that must be repaid. For each advantage that you are given, you must at some point attempt to mitigate some of your unearned privilege. This will never absolve you of said privilege but over time, if enough people equally dedicate themselves to mitigation it will lessen privilege through the changing of ideas of what it means to exist as a specific body."
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"When these White people claim to be anti-racist, I find that their efforts of anti-racism are only acceptable to themselves and of course, only other White people. Now, if you’re trying not to be racist but are finding that only people of your racial group approve of your efforts; I’d say it’s high-time to re-evaluate your approach. Right?
No, not these White people."
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4. Use the phrase, “but the [marginalized] people I know don’t find anything wrong with it…” because no one associated with you could ever be off-base with anything.
5. Give your input on everything so that the oppressed group will reap the benefits of your enlightenment.
links for 2008-07-22
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“Canadians may be wrong about race-crime link”
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“Justice experts offer theories about reasons visible minorities are less likely to be convicted, more likely to have DNA taken”
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“While it is unclear if the two boys were victims of hate crimes, Gilao said by educating the youth who commit one-third of the hate crimes in Canada, unnecessary deaths especially among immigrants could be prevented.”
links for 2008-07-09
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“A fight involving two young black men and off-duty police officers has triggered accusations of racism and brutality in the small community of Digby, N.S.”
links for 2008-06-29
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“When it comes to dealing with race and racism in Canada, we often fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to the US. Actually, we seem to do that with just about everything. Being so close to the world’s most dominant culture, we have become the little
links for 2008-06-22
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“She is a high school teacher who was fired from her position at a school in LA because her curriculum was too “Afrocentric” – instead of, you know, the usual Eurocentric curriculum that’s delivered to American students on the daily.”
links for 2008-06-21
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“A black man invented the traffic light!” he answered, shuffling about in the couch. “Cool! What else?” I queried. “I don’t know,” he responded and sank onto the floor.”
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“I’m tired of White people talk down to me and think I wasn’t born here and don’t understand Canadian Culture, rather than realize I’m just rebelling against their racism.”
links for 2008-06-19
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“[White people] truly believe they own the land, because the language is English and the schools are Euro-centric and the world they perceive is White.”
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“the heavily redacted public version of the report points to the important fact that the decision to send me to Syria was made at the highest levels of President George W. Bush’s administration.”
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“Many in Canada’s Tamil community are angry with Ottawa’s move to label one of its organizations a terrorist group.”
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“Residents of a Manitoba First Nation are calling for the removal of their leaders after the community’s water was temporarily cut off this week over unpaid bills.”
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“This is racist food for thought from the Vancouver Courier:”
links for 2008-06-16
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“[Riverdale] also has the highest percentage number of immigrants and visible minorities living in poverty. Most residents work in low paid jobs, even though they have earned high education credentials not recognized by Canadian businesses nor most levels
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“On a day when Prime Minister Stephen Harper reached out with a contrite apology for years of racist policy, one of his high-profile MPs suggested native people need to learn the value of hard work more than they need compensation dollars.”
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“A swift apology from the Conservative MP who said native people need to learn the value of hard work more than they need compensation did little to shine the tarnish on his boss’s historic outreach a day earlier.”
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“A startling demographic snapshot of students across Canada’s largest school board shows the system is failing to help children overcome roadblocks of culture, race, [sic] poverty and family background.”
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“Ottawa should lead an international effort to free a Canadian citizen imprisoned in China on terror charges, human rights advocates said Friday, noting support for the man’s case has gained momentum in the United States despite losing ground at home.”
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“Land claim talks aimed at ending the ongoing aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont., have broken off between Six Nations and government negotiators.”
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“Omar Khadr’s military lawyer says Canada should step in for his client now that the U.S. has handed the Bush administration another major legal loss relating to its Guantanamo Bay policies.”
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“South Asians are disproportionately hard hit by visa quotas and huge backlogs for immigrants, government numbers obtained through a freedom of information request show.”
links for 2008-06-15
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“contrary to stereotype, most of the bachelor’s degrees that Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders received in 2003 were in business, management, social sciences or humanities, not in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering or math.”
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