Media coverage of terrorism and terrorist attacks suffers from systemic bias that negatively impacts marginalized communities and feeds terrorism itself.
Posts tagged as “anti-racism”
There is a historical trajectory of devaluing Black people's health, safety, and environments. Past installments in this series have looked at examples ranging from Africville to Herongate to trace the continuity of this process. Ultimately, although some advocate for Black folks to join and change the system from within, without the system being open to change, this will not be enough.
The story of systemic Anti-Black Racism in Canada did not begin 5, 10, or even 50 years ago. It began over 100 years ago in Bedford, a community in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here, Black people once unified in a home they called Africville. Africville was the first region in Canada that was once owned by a large population of African-Canadians, and perhaps the last....
Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, protests against state sanctioned violence, police brutality and anti-Black racism have taken place in over 58 countries and counting. Canadians in every major city in the country have taken to the streets in protest. This is no longer a period of civil disobedience, but one of revolution.