Matthew Amha: NBA star Draymond Green's ill-informed comments about Black Lives Matter in Canada have inspired a broader debate about the Black-Canadian freedom struggle
—largely emboldened by a country that refuses to catalogue data on race—only further instantiates its existence. Denialism is a core feature of systemic racism.
For Black Canadians, Dr. King’s criticism of the “white moderate” is as poignant an assessment of the Canadian political class as it is America’s. W.E.B Du Bois’ concepts of the “wages of whiteness” and “double consciousness” encapsulate, at an elemental level, the Black Canadian experience. When James Baldwin says “the details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you” he is talking about us, too.
In the throes of uprising, it is important to make this point: Black Canadians and Black Americans are bonded by a blood-soaked history
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