“I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963. Let us make his dream come true.
#IveHadEnough of being followed around in stores, #IveHadEnough of those extra checks at airports, and most importantly #IveHadEnough of not being treated fairly by law enforcement.
Racism is a problem in a person of colour's day-to-day life. The people who serve & protect us (@TorontoPolice) should not be contribute to this issue that is already out of hand. When police stop targeting people of colour because of their skin tone we will be satisfied.
We are all capable of loving one another, it is when we do this we will finally have an equal and better society to live in and leave behind for our children and our children's' children.
It's Angela Davis's birthday today! 🎂
Here is Angela Davis on why you have to fight capitalism if you want to fight racism and sexism.
To this day she has never given up her beliefs in socialism and the struggle for a society without sexism and racism.
“If Western civilization does not now respond constructively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men [people].” #MLK#MLK50Forward
Not only is this proof that #racism is certainly not dead in this day and age, but it also shows that the people we put in power may not be who they say they are. We should all be looked at as equal and come together and make this country even better than it already is.
Senator #LynnBeyak's views on indigenous people are not stand alone. There are many people who share the same views as her that are also in Parliament. Her comments about the people who were on the land before her ancestors is truly ignorant. #RacialProfiling
Racial profiling is a damaging type of racial discrimination that relates to notions of safety and security. #Racialprofiling violates peoples’ rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code. #TuesdayThoughts#TruthBeforeTrust
Locals fear #racialprofiling will play a role in who is stopped and searched as it will all be on perception of 1) who is a criminal and 2) who is too poor to afford certain types of clothes https://t.co/lyysHjMT2u (2)