How a Nova Scotia teacher’s dream job became a lesson in racism | CBC News
It was her first teaching job and she had been waiting for this day for a very long time, but something was wrong.
On her first day, Johnson’s colleagues were welcoming children to their classrooms.
“None were coming into mine,” she said. “I waited. And waited.”
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We often assume this type of inequality doesn’t exist in Canada.
While a few jurisdictions here are beginning to think about collecting
race-based data, most don’t.
Ontario Police Union Flies Controversial Flag Tied To Blue Lives Matter
Blue Lives Matter creates a “reverse discrimination” narrative that casts police as victims who are under attack and shields them from “public accountability for their own violence against racialized communities,” said York University professors Mark Thomas and Steven Tufts in a recent studythat looked at the relationship between police solidarity, unions, race and populism in North America.
President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman John Lewis in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House February 15, 2011.
Lewis’ family announced his passing in a statement Friday evening.
“He was honored and respected as the conscience of the U.S. Congress and an icon of American history, but we knew him as a loving father and brother,” the statement reads. “He was a stalwart champion in the ongoing struggle to demand respect for the dignity and worth of every human being. He dedicated his entire life to non-violent activism and was an outspoken advocate in the struggle for equal justice in America. He will be deeply missed.”
Lewis was elected to represent Georgia’s 5th congressional district in 1987 after years of involvement with the campaign to dismantle Jim Crow and secure civil rights for Black people. Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders, was among the demonstrators brutally beaten by police during a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965.
“The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon, the city of Atlanta has lost one of its most fearless leaders, and the Congressional Black Caucus has lost our longest serving member,” the CBC said late Friday. “Despite more than 40 arrests, brutal attacks, and physical injuries, Mr. Lewis remained devoted to the philosophy of nonviolence in his fight for justice and equality.”
Source: ‘The World Has Lost a Legend’: Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Dies at 80 | Common Dreams News
In 2011, Penashue became the first Innu from Labrador to be elected to the House of Commons, and the first Innu cabinet minister. He was named minister of intergovernmental affairs in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
Throughout his personal and professional lives, Penashue has encountered plenty of examples of discrimination or systemic racism in health care, policing, corrections and other institutions.
It shows itself in the care that Indigenous people receive — or, rather, that they do not receive. In the responses they receive when they ask for help, the services they lack, the stereotypes in which they are cast.