Thoughts on BC Politics and More

  On February 22 it was the International day to end racial discrimination. As luck would have it, I was working on a PowerPoint presentation with my team that focusses on Indigenous awareness on that day.   If you were to ask me about all the forms of racism in Canada or North America right now, I would have to bow my head in shame. Never in my 64 years on this planet have I seen it this bad. I have actually seen anti racist education that included "Whiteness" and "White-privilege" in their headlines.   How in the world can we possibly end racism if we say things like that?   Individual racism is something that happens between people when they interact with each other. Racism knows no boundaries and is not limited to a person's ancestry or religious beliefs. It has been magnified lately when certain groups are allowed to suggest that certain lives matter more than other lives.   If you put a race at the beginning of that sentence, you have jus...

“Systemic racism” is a political distraction! While politicians and other public figures argue over what the term means, none of them are acting to reduce interracial or inter-group tensions. They infer that only white people engage in bigotry, discrimination, and racism which is nonsense. We are increasingly a nation of irresponsible, insensitive, rude, self-centered, snobbish, ungrateful boors. Humans are tribal and tribes naturally distrust one another. We have bigotry and discrimination within tribes based on religious beliefs, economic and social standing, intellect, sexual preference and other factors. As if our tribal instincts are not divisive enough, we are class conscious and establish a multi-layered ‘pecking order’.  We compete when there is no need for competition. The commute to work becomes a mini grand-Prix and tenths of a second count. We don’t have time for leisurely meals or adequate sleep and wonder why we are cranky, rude, stressed, unfulfilled and unco...