Institutions need to be remade to ensure inclusion, says Jane Omollo, Algoma University equity, diversity and inclusion manager
A new report released on Thursday by the Northern Policy Institute states that, for the most part, northern communities are welcoming.
Algoma University's Jane Omollo told SooToday that racism is still there in the case of individual prejudice and in institutions. “We look at movements around the world like anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia -- would they be able to respond the same way? I don’t think so.”Omollo said racism needs to be eradicated at the institutional level before it can be removed among the general population.
"But if we have a policy in place that has not spoken for these individuals for centuries, how do you start to say we do not have individual racism when the structures that were built didn’t help these individuals,” Omollo said.
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