Commuinty Not Rascim. Which would you prefer to magnify?

Community Or Racism. Which would you prefer to magnify?​

Maclean's claim that Winnipeg is Canada's most racist city upsets mayor

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Martin Luther King Day has just passed, and with all of the racial unrest south of the border, many topics pull at my heartstrings.

What I would like to talk about pertains to community not about race. What is happening within our communities that is causing such unrest? So much unrest, that we are looking to blame someone. When we are looking to blame someone unfortunately we often look to those that appear different than us.

This is when it becomes about race. We are frightened of those that are different from us or that we are ignorant of. All those years ago when the civil rights movement really stepped up a notch, much of the shift was brought about by the apparent discrepancies between the races. Wages, housing, and of course segregation.

Throughout the seventies and eighties with unionisation and the forward movement of equality for not only the African American, the First Nations and the Women, things slowly evolved. We had the recession of the 80’s and the one we saw in the last decade that we are still struggling with. Many manufacturing jobs were moved offshore, and again wage disparity between the classes, housing, these once again have become forefront issues. I would like to say that here in North America, this if we chose could be about community and not race. There are not just poor black kids out there, there are poor, white kids and poor natives as well.

Why are we not talking about minimum wage policy? How come we cannot have, a parent stay at home raising the next generation? Because we cannot afford to, it is as simple as that. Who is raising our children? United we stand divided we fall. Obviously some where we have become very divided because in some areas of this continent it looks like our communities are falling apart.

Ferguson just occurred six months ago, and Martin Luther King Day just passed. Many people at present are choosing to focus on race rather than community. Let us not forget that the focus on racism, rather than that we have become an individualistic self centred society, will only foster more ill will towards one another. Possibly we could and should be looking at ourselves, and the communities we are creating. The communities that are raising our children.

Let's love the players and change this game.

Remember because you are dark does not mean you are hated or because you are light you are a hater. We need to choose as a society and a culture who we are and what we want to be in the future and pick a healthy true path to get where we as a species want to go.

Love the players change the game.

Love the players change the game. --- My new slogan.

Let us be the change we want to see. -Gandhi-

January 24, 2016

I would like to state that I come from small town Canada, and although I am not ignorant to racism; I have always chosen to believe, pray that we as a species will someday conquer such beliefs structures built on fear. I choose to do my best to live in the solution, and sometimes this cloak of hope can allow me to forget the pain of segregation.

I myself have been bullied and harassed due to others judgement, and ignorance, and sometimes just plain jealousy. I must say that it has caused me pain I would never wish upon another. I would like to apologize to any people that have read this and live in a world where they are not given the opportunity to be free to be themselves. I still stress that we, those that have been persecuted, need to rise above, and reach our hands over the fence rather than building it higher.

To not be allowed to be your full and genuine self, independent and autonomous, is a crime that no words can fit, and I again am sorry for my misunderstanding of the situation. Yesterday the report in Ferguson, Missouri, was released regarding race, and I was saddened, but not completely shocked by the results.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/04/us-usa-ferguson-justice-idUSKBN0LZ2CT20150304

I myself as a victim at times of harassment or inappropriate behaviour because of my gender, eye colour, or kindness, humbly apologize if my chosen naivety of the situation has offended anyone. I still choose to believe there is a solution if we focus on community and practice acceptance towards our neighbours.