Why continue to deny racism?

This is humanity at its absolute worst. (Aboriginal man taunted while dying: Witness http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090815/bc_body_park_09...)

I am writing this blog at a very emotional place right now. I try to avoid doing this, but right now is the exception.

What happened in British Columbia is absolutely horrendous. I am mortified, ashamed to be a human being and overwhelmingly, immensely SAD.

People keep saying "oh the cops aren't racist" when they're beating up Indians all over Canada.... "oh, the government isn't racist" when there's more Native kids in foster care NOW then during residential schools era... and "oh hospital staff isn't racist" when a disabled Native man dies in the ER after waiting for 30+ hours in Winnipeg....

and now this.

The evidence is RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. Quit being ignorant to blatant racism. How about admit it, and now let's work to educate and change.

I know that as a White person, admitting that your institutions are faulty and improper might blow your mind and throw your whole world out of wack, but my people are dying.

Why continue to deny racism? City workers represent the people of that city. I am ashamed for the people of Vancouver, the people of British Columbia and the people of Canada.

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Julie Lafreniere, B.A. (Adv.)