We’ve been discussing what people can do if they ever find themselves in the position of having to undergo a Critical Race Training course.
It’s hard to find a good course of action, and it depends on how much is at risk. But silence – which might seem a good approach – is often defined as not being able to think of any way to respond or to counter an argument, or even acquiescence.
Speaking to the city’s Public Safety Committee, Montreal police Inspector Migüel Alston and division chief Marie-Claude Fradette presented the police force’s efforts to date to recruit more officers from ethnic backgrounds and racialized communities.
Nearly 175,000 people identified as Black on the Prairies during Canada’s 2016 census.
Like all data, this figure may not say much on its own. It is limited to the number of respondents who specifically identified as “Black.” Also, a lot could have changed in the five years since the last census was conducted.
However, when put in context, a closer look at the statistics reveals stories about a rapidly growing Black population with deep roots in the region and branches stretching across the Black diaspora.
Below are 10 graphics that illustrate where Black people on the Prairies live, how long they’ve been here, where they were born, the languages they speak and the religions they practice.
The American Civil Liberties Union and a number of other civil rights group warned that President Joe Biden’s move to ban menthol cigarettes could actually harm communities of color.
‘A menthol cigarette ban would disproportionately impact communities of color, result in criminalization of the market, and exacerbate mass incarceration,’ a letter sent this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra warned.
Contrary to the perception (almost entirely created by the media) that police are on a racist rampage gunning down black people, the truth is that almost all police interactions with black people are identical to children visiting an ice cream truck. But look at any set of data about police interactions or police shootings, slice and dice it whatever way you want, and the numbers simply don’t bear out the notion that black people should be quivering in fear of law enforcement.
According to an article published in the Boston Review, Brigham and Women’s Hospital will offer a program titled “An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine,” later this spring. The program uses a “reparations framework” for allocating medical resources in order to “comprehensively confront structural racism,” according to Harvard Medical School instructors Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse who wrote the report.
When asked about reparations, Bostic noted that the Atlanta Fed is hosting a webinar series focusing on racism in the economy. One of the speakers in the series, an Evanston, Illinois alderman, explained that her city will be instituting a reparations policy based off of past housing discrimination, Bostic noted.
Democratic Mayor Libby Schaaf said the city would be hosting “one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs” in the nation that will give 600 families who are either black, indigenous or “people of color” with low-income $500 per month for at least 18 months.
The following ten people perished in the recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado carried out by Ahmad Al-Issa. All of them appear to be white, but neither the media nor politicians have bothered to resurrect their anti-race-hate campaign that ensues when Black Lives Matter riot, or when Asians are murdered in Atlanta.
As long as we’re discussing race, did you know that Obama was the 44th white President of the United States? Be sure to remind a liberal of that next time you get a chance.
School districts across the country have adopted Marxist critical race theory, but few have done so to the degree of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in the Washington, D.C, suburbs of northern Virginia. LCPS adopted curriculum from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and removed Dr. Seuss books from its library shelves in the name of combatting racism. LCPS recently instituted a plan to combat “systemic racism” that includes training for teachers.
According to a copy of the state Senate bill, the government will pay six figures to any person who can demonstrate that they are a descendant of American slaves and have “identified as African-American” on legal documents.
The Trudeau Liberals are pressuring the CRTC to enforce rules on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime to distribute Canadian content. The streaming giants are currently not subjected to Canadian content rules.
Evanston, Ill., is a suburb of 75,000 residents directly north of the city of Chicago. Aside from being the home of Northwestern University and the birthplace of dozens of famous actors, including Bill Murray, the city is known as just an extension of Chicago.
Now, Evanston will be known as the first city in the country to offer reparations to black people. The Evanston City Council will vote on March 22 to finalize a plan that was approved by voters in 2019 offering reparations to black people for “historical racism and discrimination.”
Like welfare, once begun, there is no way to end it.
With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?
My awakening to the new orthodoxy began during this past summer of discontent. In mid-June, a few weeks after the George Floyd protests began, the head of Riverdale Country School, the New York City private school my wife and I entrusted with the education of our two young children, sent a memo apologizing for unspecified past wrongs. “We have the responsibility to use our privilege to fight for change,” he explained. “We are also free to shift some aspects of our culture more quickly than other institutions and organizations.”
