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GETTING IN A FEW LICKS FOR THE DISPOSSESSED MAJORITY

A quick note: Residents of Mississauga, like the rest of Canadians,
were never consulted when successive federal governments decided to
begin the replacement of Canada's European founding/settler people
with massive Third World immigration, beginning with the immigration
revolution of 1965 (turning our backs on Britain and Europe in favour
of the Third World) and accelerating through the 1980s, 1990s, and
ever since, with over 85% of each year's intake from the Third World
or, as this article in the Mississauga News so preciously terms it
"racialized" sources.

When I was interviewed for this article by the Mississauga News' Louie
Rosella several weeks ago, he was flabbergasted at the findin that
Whites were the second largest group who reported racism against them.
"In our survey, 24 per cent see South Asians and East Indians as the
most frequent targets of racism in Peel, followed by 17 per cent
Caucasians and 15 per cent blacks." I explained that anti-White
advertising and blatant anti-White discrimination thanks to
"employment equity" (affirmative action) programmes might help explain
this statistic.

You'd better have a stiff drink -- a double Scotch -- or not have just
had your breakfast. These two articles are vomit bag time, so full are
they with anti-White nonsense.

One Varsha Naik, chair of Peel’s Regional Diversity Roundtable.
insists"'Racism is prevalent, persisting and perpetually growing.”
Prepetually growing? Really? Despite all the programmes and the very
few incidents of racial assault? But for all the caterwauling, one
doesn't sense that Naik is about to hightail it back to the Indian
sub-continent,

British-born Sikh Sandeep Singh who now graces our shores recounts
that " he approached an employee who had just unlocked a cabinet for
another customer and was waiting while the customer read labels. Singh
asked the employee, 'Can I ask a question?' He says he was shocked
and angered by the response.
'The tone and manner of his voice was so rude,' Singh recalls.The
clerk, according to Singh, said, 'Can you not see I am with someone?
You lot have to learn some manners ... This might be normal in your
country. You should go back to your own country.'”
Well, actually Singh was the rude one butting in and demanding
attention. As a linguist, I find the story highly suspect. The term
"you lot" is very much English slang. It's not the language as it's
spoken in Ontario.
You get the impression some of the minority spokesmen just don't like
the European founding/settler people of Canada very much. If we're so
awful, why did they come here in the first place? "'White flight' is
just that, the experts say, describing it as the phenomenon of members
of the once majority population uprooting and moving to towns and
cities where they are once again in the majority. It is a racist
reaction to 'others taking over.' ... 'It’s people making personal
choices where they want to live, versus wanting to move out of a
community where they have spent generations because now the
‘others’ are taking over. And the term is ‘the others are taking
over,’ Naik says. 'I cannot continue to raise my child there, I
cannot send my child to the school because a large number are not even
of my sub-group, and therefore I want to move. That is racism, and you
can’t call it by any other name.'” Wait a second! People, lets
say East Indians gravitate to an area to be with their own kind and
feel comfortable, just like back in the Punjab, but with medicare,
welfare, etc.. That's okay. The displaced, dispossessed European
founding/settler people move away to be with their own kind to be in
their comfort zone and that's "racist"? Squeezing the original people
out of their homes and community generally called "ethnic cleansing"!

The sidebar column by Peel United Way CEP Shelley White is so replete
with nonsense and guiltmongering that it helps explain why I wouldn't
give a penny to this cause which clearly does not labour in the
interests of MY people. I hope the "racialized" minorities, who, we
are often assured by government propaganda, are ass-busting
entrepreneurial workhorses, will toss in their shekels to help their
underachieving fellows. My comments about some of White's nonsense are
in square brackets in bold letters below.

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADA FIRST IMMIRATION REFORM COMMITTEE

RACISM IS PREVALENT, PERSISTING AND PERPETUALLY GROWING, EXPERTS WARN

A LOOK AT RACISM

It’s something many of us don’t even think about. But just because
you’ve never been a victim of racism doesn’t mean it doesn’t
exist in Peel. Just ask the more than 430,000 Brampton and Mississauga
residents who have been subjected to a racist act or comment.

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Racism in Peel: It's time for a conversation
A Guest Column by Shelley White

The United Way of Peel Region is teaming up with The Mississauga News
and The Brampton Guardian to present a three-part series that takes an
in-depth look at racism in our communities. Here, United Way of Peel
President & CEO Shelley White launches the series by explaining why
it's so important that we explore this challenging topic.

An equitable society is one in which everyone can participate and
prosper. Without equity, the long-term health and vitality of our
community can be threatened, affecting all of us who live and work
here.
Equity creates a path from hope to change.

At United Way of Peel Region, we value equity and inclusion. We work
together with community partners to create conditions that allow every
Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon resident to reach their full
potential and to thrive.

The recent Statistics Canada census revealed that over 55 per cent of
our residents are from racialized backgrounds. Our increasing
diversity has changed the face of Peel Region over the past 20 years.
On the surface we appear different. But actually, we are more similar
than we think. People from different races, religions and cultures
come to Peel seeking a better life for their children and families, a
peaceful and safe place to live and work, and a community that values
social justice.
Yet many of our neighbours are facing a range of barriers to
opportunities that give them control over their own future. The
research shows that racism is one of the barriers.

Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling wrote in their report, The Review of
the Roots of Youth Violence, “Racism strikes at the core of
self-identity, eats away at the heart and casts a shadow on the soul
… It makes real all doubts about getting a fair chance in this
society. It is a serious obstacle imposed for a reason the victim has
no control over and can do nothing about.”

We know that:
• The poverty rate in Peel among racialized individuals is 19 per
cent compared to 9 per cent for non-racialized individuals.[Might that
be a result of poor screening and lack of language or job skills
skills? Also, realistically, newcomers may have to start near the
bottom and it may take time to improve their economic lot.]
• Racialized youth have lower rates of employment and higher rates
of poverty than the rest of the population. They also face the risks
of racial profiling and discrimination in their daily lives. [See
above. 'Racial profiling' is a generalization, based on reality.]
• Children and youth from racialized backgrounds who live in poverty
and lack self-esteem are more likely to be targeted by gangs. [ You
mean they JOIN gangs. Most gangs in Peel are Third Worlders. Shouldn't
their community leaders be working on the "self esteem" thing, Our
school systems celebrate Black History Month but have no comparable
recognition of European achievements.]
• Racism combined with barriers to employment and educational
opportunities erodes an individual’s physical and mental health.
[What barriers to employment and education? Education up to the end
of secondary school is free! The notoriously high Negro school dropout
rate is a problem for their parents and community and is not OUR
fault. Poor education and language skills and poor motivation are the
real "barriers to employment!"]

The first step to addressing racism is to acknowledge and understand
what it is and what we must do to eliminate it. I applaud The
Mississauga News and Brampton Guardian for initiating a much needed
community conversation about racism.
The long-term health and vitality of our community depends on all of
us working together to create hope and opportunity for everyone.

Mississauga News
ByPam Douglas and Louie Rosella/Metroland Media Group
PEEL — It’s something many of us don’t even think about. But
just because you’ve never been a victim of racism doesn’t mean it
doesn’t exist in Peel.
Just ask the more than 430,000 Brampton and Mississauga residents who
have been subjected to a racist act or comment.
According to a recent Forum Research poll conducted exclusively for
The Brampton Guardian and The Mississauga News, 59 per cent of
Peel’s “racialized” residents — the new term to replace the
outdated “visible minorities” — say they have come face-to-face
with racism in their community.
That translates to 431,300 of the 730,900 racialized residents living
here.
In two cities where the racialized population is now the majority, in
a country priding itself on multiculturalism and tolerance, that might
come as a surprise.
Seemingly even more incongruous is that local experts say
victimization is likely closer to 80 per cent.
“There’s definitely enough research to indicate that racism
exists,” says Varsha Naik, chair of Peel’s Regional Diversity
Roundtable. “Racism is prevalent, persisting and perpetually
growing.”
By far the most common is what the experts call “everyday racism.”

They say it's often subliminal — body language, tone of voice,
facial expression.
“Subliminal racism is when I know someone is under-serving me, as a
racialized person, without any overt comment,” explains Christopher
D’Souza, an equity and diversity advocate and author of children’s
books. “It’s body language, it’s tone.”
As a classic example, he points to a recent report that a Swiss store
clerk did not recognize Oprah Winfrey, but refused to show her a
$38,000 purse and steered her toward cheaper handbags instead.
For racialized people already marginalized, the everyday racism they
encounter cuts deep, and the hurt and pain become their unwanted
baggage, and their unfortunate reality, according to the experts.
“Racism is multidimensional; it is never just linear,” Naik
explains. “It isn’t just about somebody’s tone. It isn’t just
about somebody calling a name. It isn’t just about a lost
opportunity. At any given point it could intersect all of those three,
and unless you are on the receiving end, you’re never going to
really experience or learn what that is all about.”
The first time it happens, you might just walk away, she explains when
asked if such encounters are simply misinterpretations.
“But when it happens over and over and over again, you certainly
aren’t left doubting yourself one little bit,” she says. “You
know that there is something at play here that you cannot just sweep
aside.”
“It’s subtle, but it’s still emotionally damaging,” D’Souza
points out.
But everyday racism is not always that subtle. Sometimes, racism
experienced by local residents is overt — a racial slur, a repeated
stereotype, or the phrase all too familiar to many in Brampton and
Mississauga: “Go back to your own country.”
The vast majority (85 per cent) of Brampton and Mississauga residents
surveyed who said they had been victimized cited this day-to-day type
of racism that the experts say is the most prevalent.
Respondents said their experiences took the form of a verbal insult
(43 per cent), poor service (23 per cent) or being ignored (19 per
cent). Very few — three per cent — said their experience involved
physical violence.
The survey of 1,040 randomly selected residents of Brampton and
Mississauga revealed more than half had witnessed occurrences of
racism in their communities (54 per cent). In two-thirds of these
cases (67 per cent), no one intervened.
Opinion is split on whether racism is increasing (27 per cent) or
decreasing (28 per cent) in Peel, and one-third (33 per cent) said
nothing has changed.
Interestingly, those in Brampton are much more likely to say racism
has increased. A full 32 per cent of Brampton residents surveyed said
racism has increased in their community, while only 20 per cent of
Mississauga residents said they believe it is on the increase.
Fifteen per cent of those surveyed say racist behaviour is common to
Brampton, while just seven per cent said the same for Mississauga.
More than 40 per cent of those surveyed said they believe certain
religious or ethnic groups have too much influence or a bad influence
in their communities.
Sandeep Singh, a UK-born Sikh and Canadian citizen, says he has
experienced racism in Brampton only once, but it was something he
won’t soon forget. It was in a Brampton store last year.
The 34-year-old married father of two says he approached an employee
who had just unlocked a cabinet for another customer and was waiting
while the customer read labels. Singh asked the employee, “Can I ask
a question?”
He says he was shocked and angered by the response.
“The tone and manner of his voice was so rude,” Singh recalls.
The clerk, according to Singh, said, "Can you not see I am with
someone? You lot have to learn some manners ... This might be normal
in your country. You should go back to your own country.”
He hasn’t been back to the store since. There were other “visible
minorities” in the vicinity who heard what happened, but no one
intervened, he says.
He complained to management, but was told he was the problem, and in
the end, the store’s head office gave him a $100 gift voucher to
“shut me up.”
Singh, a marketing consultant, says he understands where the
“anger” comes from. He says immigrants who come to Canada and
continue to conduct themselves as if they were living in their
homeland are causing friction.
“We need to start integrating better and being more of a
community,” he says. “I understand why comments are made and where
it comes from. I know it’s not right, but there is a bit of
education that is needed.”
As Canadians, we like to think we are a polite, diverse and welcoming
society. On paper, that may be true. The Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms ingrains the philosophy of multiculturalism in our
society. Immigration brings an average 250,000 new residents to Canada
each year. In Brampton, there are 175 different ethnic backgrounds and
more than 70 different languages spoken.
Our survey, though, shows not everyone welcomes diversity.
Just more than one-tenth, or 12 per cent, of those surveyed admitted
they either dislike certain religious groups (eight per cent) or that
they sometimes make insulting comments or jokes about certain groups
(four per cent). Another nine per cent said they prefer to socialize
within their own group, but almost half (47 per cent) said they treat
everyone the same.
The experts believe those numbers aren’t completely accurate.
“Who’s going to admit in a poll that they're racist?” D’Souza
asks.
Yet 12 per cent translates into some 148,000 residents of Mississauga
and Brampton — your neighbours, your co-workers, your friends —
admitting to racist feelings or behaviour.
Paul Fromm is one of those residents. The 64-year-old Mississauga
resident is the director of the Canada First Immigration Reform
Committee, based in Rexdale.
He says he was one of the people contacted for our survey. He has been
called a racist, a bigot and a zealot, all labels he vehemently
denies.
“Being called a racist is just a way to shut you up,” he told The
News/Guardian. “Anti-racism is a code for anti-white. That’s what
it’s all about.”
Fromm has been harping on Canada’s immigration policy for years.
“I think our immigration policies are an absolute disaster,” he
says. “I think people coming into Canada should be able to
accommodate to our culture and way of life, not come in and say 'I
have to wear a turban or carry a sword.' If you can’t assimilate, we
shouldn’t look at you.”
Fromm was fired from his job teaching English at Applewood Heights
Secondary School in 1997 after he ignored warnings from administrators
not to continue associating with known racists and white supremacists.
The B’Nai Brith and other organizations had complained about his
conduct at a series of right-wing political rallies.
The Peel District School Board removed him from the classroom after 19
years on the job and asked him to teach adult students. He was warned
not to continue his political activities, then was fired when he
attended a memorial service for renowned American white supremacist
Revilo Oliver.
Fromm says hiring policies in Peel discriminate against whites. He
references an advertisement on a bus recently from Peel Regional
Police looking for recruits.
“You’ve got a guy with a turban, a woman and an Arab,” he says.
“There’s no room for white guys.”
Fromm says the belief that Peel’s diversity is its strength is
“nonsense. I think diversity is a disaster.”
Crime statistics show the more dramatic demonstrations of racist
behaviour that typically get attention in the media are not on the
rise in Peel.
Recent numbers from Peel police show hate crimes in a steady decline.
Blacks and South Asians remain the most-targeted racial groups, with
teens responsible for most of those crimes, which are largely
graffiti. Last year, 47 incidents were reported, down from 52 in 2011,
76 in 2010 and 95 in 2009.
Most agree, though, that this type of crime often goes unreported.
In our survey, 24 per cent see South Asians and East Indians as the
most frequent targets of racism in Peel, followed by 17 per cent
Caucasians and 15 per cent blacks.
It’s likely just a case of population, Naik says. More than half
(57.8 per cent) of Brampton’s and 40.5 per cent of Mississauga’s
racialized population are South Asian.
D’Souza says it is human nature to gravitate to people who we see as
being like ourselves, and it is human nature to put people who are not
like ourselves into the "other" category. There’s nothing wrong with
that.
“It’s when you ‘other’ somebody in a negative fashion, and
then apply a systemic approach to that otherness, that it’s
racism,” D’Souza says.
“White flight” is just that, the experts say, describing it as the
phenomenon of members of the once majority population uprooting and
moving to towns and cities where they are once again in the majority.
It is a racist reaction to “others taking over,” because the
context paints the “others” in a negative way.
“It’s people making personal choices where they want to live,
versus wanting to move out of a community where they have spent
generations because now the ‘others’ are taking over. And the term
is ‘the others are taking over,’” Naik says. “I cannot
continue to raise my child there, I cannot send my child to the school
because a large number are not even of my sub-group, and therefore I
want to move. That is racism, and you can’t call it by any other
name.”
Of course, systemic racism is an issue Peel’s “power structure”
has been grappling with for years.
Neither the Peel District School Board nor the Dufferin-Peel Catholic
District School Board keep race-based statistics, but the face of
education is still predominantly non-racialized, D’Souza says.
The Dufferin-Peel board has 268 principals and vice-principals, about
22 of which (8.2 per cent) are racialized, according to spokesperson
Bruce Campbell, who adds that number may be higher. Statistics for the
teaching staff are not available.
At the Peel board, where targeted efforts have been made in the last
few years, the numbers are also unavailable, but that could change. As
part of the Journey Ahead project, a diversity census is proposed that
would capture that information.
Still, D’Souza says there is a lack of diversity in local
classrooms, and it is a problem.
“If that complement of faculty has not experienced racism on a level
that a racialized child would, how are they going to deal with it?”
he asks. “They often negate or minimize that experience. Just
because it hasn’t happened to them doesn’t mean it doesn’t
exist. This data (contained in the survey) is showing that it does
exist.”
For their part, Peel police are working to attract more diverse
candidates. They say they recognize it is needed, and have added
racialized officers to their ranks over the years, but the
department’s most senior officers — the chief’s senior
management team — are still monochromatic.
Police Chief Jennifer Evans says the community should be reflected in
the department.
“It’s important for Peel Regional Police to represent and reflect
the community we serve,” she says.
Change for Peel police and other “power structures” hasn’t
always come voluntarily.
In a 2007 Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling that found Peel police
had racially profiled a woman (
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/news_centre/tribunal-rules-racial-profiling-case-against-peel-police
) accused of shoplifting, the department was ordered to develop a
specific directive prohibiting racial profiling, hire an external
consultant with expertise in racial profiling to help prepare the new
directive and training material, and ensure that all new recruits,
current officers, the officer in the case, and all new and current
supervisors be trained on the new directive, the social science
literature on racial profiling and the current case law.
That’s one of three significant Ontario Human Rights Commission
cases that have come to light in Peel in recent years.
The others:
• in 2012, the Peel District School Board settled a human rights
case regarding a vice-principal of a Brampton school who alleged that
systemic discrimination prevented her from being promoted (
http://canlii.ca/en/on/onhrt/doc/2012/2012hrto472/2012hrto472.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAOUmFuaml0IEtoYXRrdXIAAAAAAQ
)
• in a 2010 decision, ultimately upheld by the court, a Peel Law
Association librarian was found to have racially profiled two black
lawyers and a law student (
http://canlii.ca/en/on/onhrt/doc/2010/2010hrto2411/2010hrto2411.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAOc2Vsd3luIHBpZXRlcnMAAAAAAQ
). They were singled out and asked for identification to prove they
were lawyers and thereby entitled to use the law association library
located inside the Brampton courthouse
Despite the multiracial makeup of Brampton and Mississauga, the
engines that run the two cities remain predominantly white, and until
that changes, nothing else will, the experts say.
Change isn’t easy at the best of times, but there is a natural
reluctance for those in charge to give up the reins, D’Souza says.
“Human nature is to maintain and retain power, so the power dynamic
that exists within education, within law enforcement, within
healthcare, they are going to do their utmost best to maintain the
current hegemony and there’s no way around that,” he says. “When
you add the poverty piece to it, it’s daunting.”
United Way of Peel’s vice-president of community investment Anita
Stellinga says poverty is just one of the things her agency is
concerned about.
“There is data that shows how this impacts people in terms of the
levels of poverty,” she says. “We know that racialized individuals
live in higher rates of poverty than non-racialized individuals. We
know newcomers and immigrants live in higher rates of poverty than
non-newcomers and non-immigrants.”
Local politicians agree racism is an issue that needs to be dealt
with.
“I think it’s terribly unfortunate that racism continues to happen
in Peel,” says Mississauga Ward 5 Councillor Bonnie Crombie,
predicted by many political insiders to be the front-runner for the
mayor’s job once the venerable Hazel McCallion calls it quits next
fall. “We still have a very long way to go.”
Crombie represents one of Peel’s most multicultural wards, with more
than 75 per cent of the close to 80,000 residents identifying
themselves as either immigrants or “recent immigrants.”
She believes part of what perpetuates these feelings of racism among
the racialized population is the “old boys network” mentality that
exists in workplaces, community events and even city hall.
“The same 200 people are involved in everything,” she says. “We
have to reach out to the new communities out there.”

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