Friday, September 20, 2019

#Blackface

If this doesn't take him down, nothing will.

How can my fellow Canadians, people who howled at the 'homophobia' of Andrew Scheer, whose recently revived speech echoed the sentiments of the vast majority of the Western world in that time period -- how can the people who reviled and cheered the cancelling of an SNL comedian for repeatedly using racial epithets -- how can those same people dismiss Justin Trudeau's blackface x 3 (+?) scandal as though it was as one Toronto Star contributor said: as Canadian as hockey.

FFS -- Justin Trudeau can violate ethics, break the law, interfere in legal administration, railroad an admiral to subvert blame, interfere with financial administration, refuse to adhere to his own policies, violate conflict of interest, allegedly grope a woman -- because there are no pictures -- there is no easy BLACK and WHITE... all of those issues require some level of understanding of historical actions, chronology of events, workings of various governmental departments, or conflicting versions from various external parties.... Justin Trudeau wore blackface at least three times in his life (that he can remember). There is photographic evidence of this pathetic display of either racism or poor judgement. And people are giving it a shrug, accepting his 'my privilege gave me blinders' bullshit.

Is Justin Trudeau racist? I'm going to pass on answering that and just say, I guess the difference between someone like Mr. Trudeau, and someone like me, is I grew up in a multicultural neighbourhood, and I've raised my kids in the same environment. When he says his privilege prevented him from grasping the racism of his actions, he's telling the truth. Someone like Mr. Trudeau has never met a person of colour who wasn't a prop or a vote. 

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