"I am not a racist it's just that I can't hire black staff because most of my customers are racist."
"I am not a racist it's just that we can't pick a black candidate because most of the voters are racists."
"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.
Oh, believe you me, both those comments are of the Pass the Buck kind that serves to protect the racist from being labelled as such by stating it's his customers who are racist and wouldn't frequent his establishment. And, unfortunately, both ends are true. Try Stittsville for example! All white faces. Housing prices placed at a level that is out of reach to the working class multi-cultural families that live and work in Ottawa. Ottawa is a racist city and it's a fact that is well known. Too many dark faces cleaning Bayshore Mall - not enough dark faces running Bayshore Mall. Government full of white faces - just get invited to write a government test and all the facilitators are white. The best place for equality if you're not white is Toronto. Go west Muhummad, go west.
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