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That is because public sector employers were required to participate in affirmative action programs before the private sector started hiring minorities and /or were not allowed to discriminate based on race. Political will to overcome racial or gender disparity will always first be reflected in the public sector.
But also, there have always been areas where certain ethnicities seem to be predominant. Irish cops, Jewish lawyers, Indian convenience store owners. They sound like stereotypes, but they were based in reality.
Black airport workers in TO could be from Haiti or one of the former colonized countries in Africa--IOW, people who are French and English bilingual, which would be an asset at the airport in the largest city of a country that uses those two languages.
EVERYTHING here is in English and French, from airport signs to labels on Friskies cans.
Affirmative Action is government mandating discrimination based on race.
Theater is mostly white audiences watching white actors in storylines that reflect white experiences. It’s the old joke where a child on Mother’s Day says “when is Childrens Day?” and the answer is “every day is Childrens Day”. You honestly can’t understand why black people in a vastly white country (compared to USA) might want to feel comraderie with their peers and express their feelings about being a minority with others that experience the same things? How do you see it as different from the woman’s poetry night?
Why do you think that "camaraderie with their peers" should be based on race?
Do you not understand that making a special dispensation for blacks on social segregation only perpetuates the problem of racism?
MIKE WALLACE: "How are we going to get rid of racism until ...?"
MORGAN FREEMAN: "Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You're not going to say, "I know this white guy named Mike Wallace." Hear what I'm saying? The only way to stop racism is to stop talking about it.”
This is just a circle jerk now, not going to explain the same thing 500 more ways than I already did. If you want to choose to be offended by a night at the theater that has no impact on you, more power to you.
Ok, that makes me feel better, but the link I provided is badly worded by using " an ALL Black identifying audience". That sounds to me like they want an all black audience.
I agree that the statement from the NAC clarifies things, though one wonders how comfortable a person who isn't obviously black would feel about attending, given the fairly categorical wording that you've pointed out.
This is just a circle jerk now, not going to explain the same thing 500 more ways than I already did. If you want to choose to be offended by a night at the theater that has no impact on you, more power to you.
Part of the issue is that people are bringing up good points and questions that you can't or choose not to refute.
Part of the issue is that people are bringing up good points and questions that you can't or choose not to refute.
I disagree. Read back, the points are the same ones from pages ago, which I responded to and tried to explain many different ways, to no avail. No one is here to change their mind. They are attached to their being offended and I'm not going to change that.
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