Yes-Canada has anti-Black racism, too
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2023
- To the uninitiated, Canada may have a reputation for friendly and folksy charm. For Black and Indigenous peoples of the 'Great White North,' this veneer belies a white supremacy as vicious as anywhere else. Since 2020, Black Class Action Secretariat has fought to take the federal government to task for rampant and systemic discrimination. The class action lawsuit seeks damages of $2.5 billion. Nicholas Marcus Thompson joins The Real News for a far-ranging discussion on the long history of anti-Black racism in Canada, as well as the efforts of Black Class Action to affect change through organization.
Nicholas Marcus Thompson is a Trinidadian-Canadian social justice advocate and union leader.
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22:36-White women have benefited MOSTLY from the HIGHLY contested "AFFIRMATIVE" action in the U.S..
White women and immigrants.
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Having moved to Toronto from the States (West Coast), it's my observation that anti -Black racism is much more overt and intense in Canada.
@Katrina Matheson. I am not doubting this might be the case but what really stands out to you? I live in a Canadian province with few blacks and the few times I have been to the US I felt there was more tension.
@@mnkwazi I've become aware of vicious anti-Black bullying in Toronto schools that seems pretty widespread. Not sure where these kids are learning it but it's stuff out of another era. Black kids getting tied up with jump ropes, horrible slurs, threats of violence explicitly because of Blackness. I'm sure there places where it happens in the US but in the country's largest metropolitan area? You wouldn't find this kind of stuff in LA or NY.
@@katrinamatheson9786 Wow that is really worrying. It seems overall racial issues have not changed that much.
@@katrinamatheson9786 I have heard this argument/talking point before. Kids in K-12 picking on kids that have something different, something like being brown, black, or fat, skinny, bad teeth, red hair, and mentality. I have seen black kids pick on white kids in a predominate black school. I have seen black and white students pick on Hispanic kids, I have seen Asian kids getting picked on by all other groups. It's called bullying and it still happens nearly everywhere. In Canada where the Black pop is very low I would assume that they're the ones getting singled out for teasing. Just like a white kid would in any country in Africa.
We place way too much emphasis on grammar school experiences and I'm not trying to diminish anyone's experiences (because some people carry those childish events as trauma the rest of their lives) but I would prefer to know more about adult racism, like employment opportunities and housing.
@@niccoarcadia4179 no, that's not it.
I wish Mr. Thompson and his organization much success and the success spreads to the United States and other parts of the world.
Now, I'm 44. When I was 23, I was employed by Agriculture Agri-food Canada in Nova Scotia. My mentor treated me so poorly that I quit. I did not want to, but to be placed in an office all day never being demonstrated how to do the job, and only asked to fax papers, I had to leave. Aside from that, being ignored purposely, called names, and trying to avoid traps made my job very stressful. Only men in office would be called derogatory names, or disrespected in front of their coworkers. My mentor would avoid me daily and try to trap me. Being the only Black person in that department and building was uncomfortable. I did not know how to handle that situation, which was a clearly racist and sexist environment. I pray that other young people never have to be in the situations I have experienced in NS.
See that's the problem with black canadians, we don't fight. we've been lied to that canada is a liberal utopian society which it isn't. We should be fighting every day but we are not.
If it fixes the disastrous Canadian public services maybe we should give it a try.
The truth will hurt many.
The prime minister has done blackface and hasn't apologized for it, read between the lines people
He was caught many times and actually doesn’t even know himself how many times he has done this
Godbless you & your struggle. We as Americans have the same issues here in the states. Seeing the work you’ve done up there in Canada is inspiring but the Anarchistic spirit in me is disheartened because you have to argue / fight for your rights.
It's worldwide. We knew that.
this is so true, and same goes in those big systemic banks
The act shouldn’t have to provide a laundry list of minorities for all minorities (including blacks & First Nations people) to be protected under the act! I could see a “…including but not limited to… (with a short list of covered minorities)”
I hope you win & the Canadian government fixes the problem.
how many days in Canada's black history month is dedicated to Drake?
What an amazing man Nicholas Marcus Thompson is. Thank you, sir for your activism of truth and Canada' s history with racism. Very much like ours here in America.
Wish you all the best with your endeavors as we all join hands together for change.
This man is nothing but a crybaby !
I wonder what Drake got to say about this. Probably nothing😂😂😂
He is half white, so...
Why the Doubble Standart all the Time?? Wishing the Peoples all the Best ( Sound like Apartheid )😣
36:07-United States as well
I think every day just walking down the street they hate me because
Thank you again for covering Canadian issues, we really don't get this kind of coverage here
Are you in Canada or USA?
@@mathematicaleconomist4943 Canada...
@@DRS659 OH. OK.
I think, the key to our real transformation is in a change in property relations.
Soil (land) belongs to none therefore to everyone brings about a new consciousness and attitude about property relations.
Everything will change when we change our economic relationship to Nature.
When we regard the material relationship of our production to nature as having laws of its own our present form of economic production contradicts has been resolved with the dissolution of that antagonism is when our history stops recording a class history of conflict(s) and records instead a chronology of human achievements.
history records both history of class conflict, also achievements. I dont think that you can alter the projectory of property ownership and the land based rights that are afforded to it at this point in history. serfdom was partially large lands being worked by peasantry , slavery was forced working of a new world but group based on their racial color, you partially have an increasingly narrowing of the definition of land and rights afforded due to that. I feel that things like stand your ground laws are important. Simply because if something happens to you on it, you have the right of defense in the face of public discrimination , your land is where you can lay in peace protected by the power of your states laws and your right of freedom as long as you arent hurting others , your land is where you have freedom
@@itsolivier I don’t think you use of the categories are understandable, relatable.
the perception thing is a common bs excuse even used by Black professionals towards young Black grads looking to get into a decent position, not digging trenches. They'll say oh it's your perception, digging trenches is great and you'll move up to an office "some day".
🙋🇨🇦 Why does this channel block my anti racism comments?
Why are you using ADOS talking points
And also ant-white discrimination. It is an ignorance problem not a cultural one.
He sounds the script, i guess you gotta do what you gotta do
How do they feel about Liverpudlians?
Goodstuff!
He don't sound like the people from 400 years qgo
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This is important coverage
Yes i am a student in canada and studying scm in conestoga college. My project coordinator bryan snage has booked case against me for using my mobile hotspot for writing daily quiz under cheating case. Also i have requested for diifernt class time to support my work but he always push me down wards and in one exam he came to my professor and said keep on this idiot
I agree with this Gentlemen Canada move Forward More Minorities better Position in Canada its Embrassment!! They Promote!!! Canada improvement Canada work Situation!! Poor treatment workers properly with Unions increase pay!! Longterm position not Temp work!!
Also refugee and citizenship canada . They discriminate blacks when it comes to giving you a visa if you come from africa more than likely be denied . Immigration call us africans the dirty thirty file .
He sounds west Indian
why are so interest in his origin?!except Native Canadian ,others we all immigrate in North American. Nicholas is African Descendant,(even though he may have little no African descendant heritage ). You can just assume he is West Indian due to an accent. You should be interest in what he say.
SHOCKING. THE ALMIGHTY MASTER RACE STRIKES AGAIN.
Canada was a freedom boarder, what happened?
Black people has no allies.
Hello yes some racism in America But!! A least America has Barack Obama President Massachusetts Devon Patrick black Govern New York Eric Adams Mayor America has moved Forward Black Achievement!!! Canada still has long way to go!!
A multi billion dollar lawsuit?? Suing the county basically?? Move to another country then. It’s laughable the amount of money you want for damages.
He sounds Caribbean not Canadian
This is actually important. I know this guy glossed over his entire program and all of black history but check this out:
He's making his employer responsible for discrimination, as opposed to what other employers do which is create an Diversity Equity and Inclusion program at work, hire a small team of HR employees and blame the workers.
I actually live in Canada and have had actual experience with this movement, and although it's made up of liberals and conservatives and NDPs, they're actually doing the right thing. It's not really Karl Marx but it's still right, and it's still important as a workers issue.
Isn’t the fact that he has an employer prove their isn’t racism? Lol wow man
Thought about this in the car later today, and I thought about hate crimes. A couple things came up concerning the state:
1. Should the state be doing more legislating based on people's race? Obviously race isn't real, but it's real for racialized people. Should the state make this distinction?
2. Should the state be allowed to decide what is and isn't racist? For a lot of people, the investigation alone would be a punishment, which isn't just.
3. Is this really a road we want to go down with the federal government? Might hurt us all more in the end, rather than help us.
What about situation indians facing racism in Canada?
Enlight us about it, plz
Now we see the çrazies. War phase
Is the man Caribbean?
Canada needs immigrants if employers don't higher people mey be because they don't qualify for the job they're applying for what more can I say about this matter
Duhhhh......
I come from Europe im white but i fling every way diskrimination ( some way oven rasizam so from people where i working becouse There working punjaby people- some is in kinese company) so not only black people discrimineted in Canada ( .y
sorry for my lou english language ...
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Yes Racism in Canada with Temp Agency they treatment poor l have two friends white Girls one l didn't have a Problem with with Portageuse still Racist sad to say
This guy knows nothing about racism in Canada . I can hear his accent that indicates he's new to Canada . The maternal side of my family immigrated from the Southern U.S. in the early 1870's , to Southern Ontario Canada , as newly freed people .They were amongst the first black settlers in Southern , Ontario . They faced real racism . Yet still , my white grandfather married my black grandmother in the early 1940's . In a small town in Ontario , even . The same goes for my white father who married my black mother in 1964 .So yes there was discrimination in Canada and my family faced alot of it but not nowadays and obviously not amongst everybody . If my mother or grandmother were still alive they would not think highly of this man at all !
its highly located in subterranean departments, at their dinner tables, in their minds, in the way they seclude and isolate economically people descendant from the toils of forced labor, that their colonial ancestors started a system of slavery, racism and impunity that leads to this day. if only from the economic advantages that one group gained from putting others in chains to jump start the new world, you should be the one with the clearest point of view of racism in a closeted society with two paternal white lineages marrying to black women, you would think youd have the handed down reality of life of societal covert racism.. i think you should find some more stories from your grandparents, they obviously cant tell you what it feels to be looked at in certain ways in a certain period of time. How would looks from people of that era, apply to our idea of racism now.
Maybe you're not experience due to your Mix background. You may get more privilege from your European descendant side. About the accent ,there are many people in Canada who come from different places around the world and the accident do not change ,even they have been live in Canada more than 15 years. Many Asians, Europeans and African descendants who were not born here and they still have an accent. Yes, Canada is doing well compare to USA and other countries have more European descendants and Asia, but there are still some issues and it need to be fix ( one of the examples is those ones Nicholas mention in these video).
8:23-8:26-"We should go back to the GOOD ol' day's..when we had SLAVE'S"..they would have to KILL me..
Really, I did not know that Canada ever had slavery because I thought Canada was where all the enslaved people in the U. S. escaped to. This is news to me!
How can anyone expect equality in a place that still forces citizens to swear or take an oath of allegiance to the british royal family . if canada was really an independent democratic republic without ties to royal families colonialism etc then there might be a better chance of changing society and public service to a fairer system .
Speaking as an Irish Man, I could never live or work in Canada because I could never swear allegiance to the British royal family to become Canadian citizen. the same royal family who carried out Invasion military occupation colonization sectarian penal laws charter schools land clearances genocides forced evictions forced starvation. Forced slavery or indentured servitude. forced exile to hell or Barbados saint Kitts Jamaica or Virginia. The Irish were sent and in many other places all over the world. Look at how the Brits treated the windrush generation after they came to rebuild England after ww2. Thier empire was built on oppression and maintained by continued opression. It's Time to change all that now!
B.S.
come to settle on a European continent with native peoples what can they wait? better work for your countries of origin, we have problems in the region, we should not be receiving foreign people, if they do not feel well, it is your problem for making the decision to come to America!
I am Canadian I strongly disagree with this gentleman.
I commend the interviewer on his patience.
And?
who asked?
Sounds like Black Canadian's should be fighting for REPARATIONS!
Yes, we should be and we are actually doing it, but Regionally. But Not every Black citizen in Canada qualifies for Reparations because their Ancestors were not Enslaved in Canada. Canada's history of slavery is slightly different than the USA. Canada is a nation of many Black Ethnicities and Nationalities, many from the Colonizer British and French Caribbean and recent (30 yrs) Immigrants from the Continent. Only the Blacks on the East Coast / Nova Scotia ( Descendants of Black Slaves of British Royalists) and maybe some (Descendants of Runaway Slaves) on the Windsor - Detroit border would qualify for such Restitution.
For now, this just a REGULAR Class Action Law Suit against a Gov't Institution that has been Negligent in Protecting the Human / Worker's Rights of its specifically Black employees and needs to held liable / accountable.
lol.... so the 90% of the population that arrived in Canada after 1834 should pay reparations for something that happened before they arrived, including the large percentage of non-white Canadians? Who do we pay, just the descendants of the 4000 black slaves, or all black Canadians?
One double double and a chocolate donut for every working age BiPocks left behind in the systemic donut discriminacioncide that has been perpetrated for so long.
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Also make sure to have bigotry and discrimination against white this way it’s much better.
And even afterwards, because we are sinners in the sight of God - Some people cheat their workers, some deny justice to the poor & some are racists…
@@TraditionalAnglican all boogies cheat their workers. Cmon now as a good Marxist you know this.
I have a number of friends who work in the CRA, PWGSC, DFAIT, and a few other Federal agencies, and I've had conversations with them about hiring practices. The notion that you're (italics) denied (italics ended) opportunities because you're a person of colour is false. On the contrary, you're encouraged to apply. Every Federal Department (along with Provincial Ministerial, and Municipal groups at the City level) are tripping over themselves to find POC to fill open posts.
There's obviously racism here, because there's racism in every country on Earth, but the Federal Government?!! No. Sorry, this is false.
Dude going back to World War One, 1600?!!? Joke.
Creat your businesses and build for yourself.
Bp need to come together into one force, there is no unity and likely never will be thus this type of thing will always occur
Life is hard.
Bring an interahamwe Leftist makes it harder for everyone.
Desist from your toxic activism and be a better person.
Who do you call Interahamwe?! i guess you don't know the meaning of Interahamwe .Otherwise you should call that name to the people who brought or set up unequal system and stop accusing someone who fight equal right system. You sound selfish and the world would no be better with people like you. Try to be in another person's shoes and see the reality. Lastly ,a person you call Interahamwe is not near relate to Interahamwe. Maybe you ,you sound one of them .
Absolute nonsense ..playing the victim card .
You hate it when your vicious cruelty gets exposed!
uuhhh!! why can you stand as man and facing the Truth!? why can you stop ignorance and put yourself in someone's shoes?see yourself the realities, therefore you can confirm if people playing the victim card.
@@rxkoty we don't do it enough, so when they hear it they think 'NO WAY' so it is our fault as much as theirs. staying quiet wont' do you any good, with tiktok and all of this available and yet you never see any black canadians talking about this
Not giving black people advantages over people of other races he argues is racism..
What a JOKE!!
This nicolas is the racist.
Absolutely correct. It’s anti white . Racism. Period. They should be embarrassed and ashamed but they are mental.
lol, no.
Oh, the rhetoric of Reverse White Victimization...
@@AnnoyingCitizen
"no" ..great argument dummy.
FO
@@whitemale6227don't get mad at him because your too stupid to actually understand it lol
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