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Looks like word has reached F& #39;ton re who folks at home think is doc who brought c-19 back to NB.
I& #39;ve debated not saying anything but I& #39;m finding it increasingly difficult to divorce myself from the racism.
I& #39;ve debated not saying anything but I& #39;m finding it increasingly difficult to divorce myself from the racism.
So a couple of things:
I hate that I& #39;ve been worried about my visibly Chinese mother going out for walks in her neighbourhood after all the hatred that& #39;s been aimed at the most public Chinese woman in Canada right now.
I hate that I& #39;ve been worried about my visibly Chinese mother going out for walks in her neighbourhood after all the hatred that& #39;s been aimed at the most public Chinese woman in Canada right now.
I& #39;m also not comfortable that a black man in this week, of all weeks, is the public face of what is looking to be a nasty clustered outbreak in an already ostracised part of the province.
It& #39;s hard to separate the speed with which he was identified and his race.
It& #39;s hard to separate the speed with which he was identified and his race.
I share in my adopted community& #39;s rage and sense of betrayal. They& #39;ve fought so hard since the start of this pandemic to show that they didn& #39;t need to become pariahs just bc they shared a bridge with QC. Because their community was split by an artificial boundary in the bay.
And for this to come from a medical professional? From a position of power? Where healthcare is one of the major industrial sectors in the region? And where so much of the population relies on that for work or for care?
It& #39;s gut-wrenching.
It& #39;s gut-wrenching.
But I don& #39;t know how to reconcile my love and compassion with the deepest disappointment that before dinner last night, I was reading comments calling for this man to be deported and jailed and publicly shamed.
As if his blackness didn& #39;t play a part in that. Or his foreignness.
As if his blackness didn& #39;t play a part in that. Or his foreignness.
The whiplash from anger and - again - betrayal to despair as I hope that someone is keeping his kids safe and away from this "publicity".
Or hope that they have citizenship, as if that might spare them from whatever abuse this pain is going to send their way.
Or hope that they have citizenship, as if that might spare them from whatever abuse this pain is going to send their way.
But the way that our pain and fear manifests in the baying of blood and the crying for criminal charges - as if black doctors walking the streets of this community haven& #39;t previously been stopped and handcuffed by police unwilling to recognise their medical credentials.
As if Listuguj residents who by colonial legacy don& #39;t find themselves both dependent on NB and subject to its most racist tendencies on a daily basis.
