FELDSTED – No one asks, ‘Who claims that black lives don’t matter?’. There is no answer because the slogan is not based on fact or reason
I have watched the ‘black lives matter’ “protests” in our major Canadian cities with astonishment. The concept is thoughtlessly mimicked from US racial strife with an anarchist background. Those in the vanguard of Canadian protests have no knowledge of history or Canada’s role in freeing slaves. No one asks: “ Who claims that black lives don’t matter ?” There is no answer because the slogan is not based on fact or reason. Slavery was abolished in Upper Canada (no w Ontario) in 1793, 227 years ago. In 1834, slavery was abolished in the entire Briti sh Empire (including the Canadian colonies) 186 years ago and 33 years prior to Confederation. William Wilberforce, a member of the House of Commons as an independent, became intricately involved in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain . His conversion to Evangelical Christianity in 1784 played a key role in interesting him in this social reform. William Wilberforce's Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British...