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Grace Joubarne's avatar

I had a garage sale last year and many blacks and browns who now reside in my previously mostly white, quiet neighbourhood in Canada's capital showed up.

One mouthy black woman took a liking to an item, and started to fondle it to the point where I asked her to put it down so others could see it as well.

Then she had her 'fit' and started yelling that I was being racist and was limiting her time to look at the item because she was black.

I was totally unfazed as I said just as loudly ... 'You are wrong, you are purple. And I don't like purple people preventing blacks, browns and whites from being able to see the item too."

She had no idea what to do, except to leave ... without the item. I made a lot of new friends, black and white, that day.

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Martine McRae's avatar

I am tired of the commercials black men with white women. Tired of that this is just forcing the agenda!

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Charkate's avatar

Agree with your summation of the situation. If only the world could see the George Floyd death clearly. But people still refer to him as being murdured, which is incorrect, and until that changes, and the truth discuessed publicly, the issues will continue.

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Jim McMurtry's avatar

What follows is powerfully important to state, but only James Pew, among journalists, has the individual courage and spirit to do so: “If we keep going like this as a society, black fatigue will turn into black resentment, and eventually will turn into hatred of blacks. Blacks do not want this. Neither do whites. So, we have to agree that “nigger” is an ugly word, but that people are allowed to say it (including white people). We have to allow white people to criticize and express their displeasure with the antics and anti-social qualities of modern black culture. We have to be able to call things awful when they are awful, no matter what colour.” I think it is unwise to favour any race, unless one wants resentment and civil strife. Identity politics has made me sick of group identity, and especially special rights for those most frenzied to see themselves as victims.

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steven lightfoot's avatar

Identity politics and the celebration of victimhood needs to stop, as does the emotional manipulation carried out by the so-called 'historically marginalized'. Enough already.

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Graham Penner's avatar

Thanks for unpacking that. There is alot to consider!

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Tershia's avatar

An excellent article that many of us can identify with. I have lived in many different places in my life, the last being the kakistocracy of Canada. Being in the twilight of my life, I now have culture fatigue that comes in many different colours. The days of civility are gone. My grandmother’s words still echo in my mind, “Poor, but respectable”.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Fatigue is right,

Cheers!

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Vernon Pahl's avatar

What a bold and refreshingly honest assessment and opinion.

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Bird's Brain's avatar

"I like my black people to be polite, well-spoken, courteous, and educated."

I like ALL my people to be polite, well-spoken, courteous and educated. But that ship has sailed. Anyone who operates a retail outlet or restaurant will tell you that people in general are getting ruder, more entitled and generally less civilized. They let their children treat merchandise as if it were their personal toys, run around tables while servers with heavy trays dodge them and seem to believe they can speak to staff any way they want because "the customer is always right."

I understand you're writing about woke culture here. But in general, our culture is being intentionally lead in the direction of less civility and more anger and resentment. That's one more way the west is being slowly dismantled and replaced with something we're all less likely to think worthy of saving.

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Jan's avatar

In government offices, the now post signs asking patrons not to swear and use profanity.

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Bird's Brain's avatar

Sad that they have to do that, isn't it?!

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Peter1's avatar

I hardly watch TV anymore and the phony commercials are very annoying. I think more people will do the same.

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Ree's avatar

I second that. TV is a wasteland of woke and not worth watching.

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Tildeb's avatar

An uncomfortable topic difficult to have when the dismissive 'feels' are more important to so many than are the brute facts. And the facts are that there is a rising trend of socially dysfunctional people being excused, exempted, and celebrated not for their antisocial behaviour or the caustic effects their irresponsibility puts into the world (ignoring and even condemning the victims created) but for their asymmetrical skin colour or ethnicity or religion or sexual confusion that provides cover and shielding for the tolerance of irresponsible and violent behaviour waved away by these 'feeling' folk. This allowance by those 'champions of the oppressed' to appear 'kind' and 'virtuous' is in fact dismantling the quality of life and submerging shared values for all in western society. You bet there's a rising anger. So feelings of discomfort now with the use of accurate words will pale in comparison to the 'feels' of reasonable fear and increasing trepidation about engaging with an increasingly hostile and dangerous society being sown that awaits these same fools. Perhaps they will end up writhing in ecstasy in their own victimhood that they themselves helped bring into not just their lives but the lives of all.

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November 5, 1955's avatar

The thesis here is basically that we should be able to call black people niggers when they're being niggers. I agree, it's just a word at the end of the day, but I don't think it's difficult to refrain from using it, even in a confrontational situation like this. The lack of foresight and self control on her part, not to mention her appearance, doesn't scream 'high quality, sensible person' in the probable view of the Author. He's merely defending her because she's white.

Whether you think the woman should have her life ruined is another debate, but calling this child a nigger was an extremely dumb ass thing to do. That the word flew out of her mouth reveals the likely logic/mode of thinking she's employing in her genius, white, high IQ brain.

I guess my point is that the whole scene could have just as well went down without her making that mistake (again, not hard to avoid making it). She could have got just as pissed, etc.

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Mike Brentnall's avatar

Let us hope that attention to these matters do not lead to racial civil war in the U.S. There may very well be some force who would wish for such an event as this to occur.

I question why one particular ethnic enclave lament continuously about slavery when history has shown that many, or most or all, peoples throughout history were victims of it. It's appears as though the organized 'black' community want so very badly to appropriate being victims of the by-gone practice of slavery in the Western world. What makes the 'black' community so special after it also happened to 'them' over 150 years ago? According to some research, thousands of Irish, Scottish and English peasants were abducted from their homelands, indentured in servitude and treated much more harshly in the New World before African slaves arrived.

Thank you Mr. Pew & WWC for opening some discussion in Canada about the black/white culture clashes in the U.S.

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Janice's avatar

Another essay that betrays this author’s intolerance for certain things which he hides behind a screen of “wokeism” in order to pretend there is nothing wrong in championing certain sentiments. In this case, he finds a way to justify an adult white woman calling a black child a racial slur, in front of other children, no less. Would this same rationalization hold for the author if some brute of a grown man, frustrated by the behaviour of the author’s 5 year old (or 11 year old, if you prefer) daughter called her a whore, or the bastardized child of a whore, let alone in front of her friends? Is it okay to confront someone in a store whose child is running amuck and tell them to get their little “squaw” under control? Or to shut up their squalling baby “Jap,” etc.? Please note that the response, “My child would never do something to get told off,” doesn’t work.

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