In Canada, this isn't much race-based pride. You might be proud of what country or region you're family is originally from or your particular faith group. Most often you're proud of being Canadian. But rarely do you see people marching in the streets shouting slogans how proud they are to be brown, yellow or even black. Except for the white supremacists.
I, ignorantly, believed that these folks had sequestered themselves behind closed doors and online. There they are relatively free from spouting their hate (see my previous post on a White America article). However, for the first time in recent memory, these guys (mostly males) decided to hold a rally in Calgary on, of all days, International Day to Eliminate Racial Discrimination. I don't get these guys. Obviously, they all came from other countries (however long ago). Why can't the be happy celebrating being Irish, Ukrainian or Polish? Also, why's white pride have to come with "everyone else is inferior"? Why so angry? You guys still run most of the world.
Thankfully, they were in the minority on this day, and the Anti-Racist Action (ARA) group were out in full-force to represent the majority of Canadians.
Looking through the pics on the Sun's site and watching the video on CTV, I noticed a distinct absence of identifiable Sikhs in the crowd. While we need to keep advocating for our own rights and freedoms, this struggle always needs to be subordinate to fighting for the rights and freedoms of others. And this fight includes being a part of these kind of demonstrations.
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