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Introduction
When you talk about Canada you are talking about beautiful sceneries and snow-white mountains, you are talking about so many different shades of colors that co-exist together in a well-natured landscape. Amongst these shades though, there is one shade that is shadowed and blurred. Black. When we hear about racism, it is rarely associated with countries other than America, South Africa and the like. Hardly ever is it about a country like Canada. However, with the increase in recent cases of violence along with the surfacing of reports of general racism, it now appears that the history of racism has deep roots in this country. The only reason it is not known is that both the history and present are dominantly being silenced.
Silent racism
Canada is seeing what can be termed as a ‘silent racism’, the kind where everyone knows there is discrimination but no one talks about it. It is there in the air and the atmosphere, more like an open secret. While the racism in America is open and easy to judge, that in Canada can only be condemned in silence. Though both the racisms are evil, raising your voice in Canada is perceived as inappropriate because there is no physical proof for it. This has been one reason why many blacks just suffocate on this unfairness and accept it as fate.
That has been the case until recently. The younger generation though seems to have its own way of doing things and hence the rising protests and prominent statements from the black youth and population along with the creation of a black rights organization like Black Lives Matter.
History of discrimination in Canada
While many people believe that slavery in Canada was actually very minimal, there seems to be evidence of prominent concealed slavery and the data regarding the statistics of slavery is seriously manipulated. Robyn Maynard, author of “Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present” (Maynard, 2017) claims that
“…historian Harvey Amani Whitfield has pointed out is that particularly in the Maritime provinces, there’s misleading ways that often black people would be categorized as servants when many of them were in fact actually enslaved”.
This kind of hushed past apparently seeps into the future and the present reflecting the mortifying reality that the Black Canadians live in. So, today as racism continues on the surface, it is still invisible to the naked eye simply because people are not read to accept it. The only clear pointers to the existence of racism in Canada are the statistics held from time to time.
Dr, Barrington Walker, a historian at Queens University, thinks that racism in Canada is a deep memory. "I do think that the history of anti-black racism that exists in Canada, that there is a kind of long, institutionalized state memory, the old idea that blacks do not belong as part of the Canadian landscape." (2008)
The implication of racism is apparent from very early on, even within educational systems in the Canadian societies where an invisible barrier veils the academic achievements of the Blacks, eventually pushing them out of the way whether for jobs or for chances of better living and development.
“Systemic racism and the differential treatment of [Black] students by teachers, administrators, and other students is a significant problem that directly contributes to the lack of achievement”. (Yon, 1994, p. 134)
Thus the vicious cycle continues. Black Canadians, not given chances to earn better, have children who cannot have a better education or advance to higher learning again grow up to have not-so-good jobs followed by their offspring and so on. When restricted in this cycle, the majority remain there, only a select few can break free and advance to a better way of living. However, the discrimination that continues into the legal and justice system continues to remain a constraint even on them.
Legal discrimination
Discrimination in Canada is apparent in many areas of day-to-day life according to several studies (Hum & Simpson, 2007). However, the most prominent area of this discrimination can be felt and noticed in the Canadian legal system and policing. The data revealed by researchers on this topic has been shocking and clearly indicative of apparent discrimination. Blacks are much more prone to suspicion and legal action than whites or browns.
Instances of unaccounted for discrimination have become very common and since it is the legal system itself, voices are hardly raised against this kind of unfair practice. While delving into research, Dr. Walker, discovered a rather consistent pattern of differential treatment between black defendants and white defendants in terms of the judgment, trial, and sentences. (Barrington, 2008)
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