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Canadians are known to be polite people.
Well at least we used to be! :P
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Monday, August 2, 2010
racist graffiti spree hits Vancouver strip mall
Source: Vancouver Sun
Richmond RCMP are looking for two white males who went on a twisted, sometimes racist rant with a felt marker at an Asian strip mall.
The two men, who were caught on security cameras, filled two levels of a stairwell with felt marker graffiti, which included threats against police and racial slurs against Asians:
One of the suspects wrote "F--k the Chinese" next to a Swastika, and wrote "KKK" beneath it.
They also wrote "187 a pig" and "187 on an undercover cop" and "F--k the police."
The term "187" is used by some police agencies to refer to a homicide, so the graffiti could be read as a threat against police.
The scrawls have all the earmarks of a tweaking crackhead indulging in a stream-of-consciousness rant.
"I just got out of jail and I'm high," one of them wrote.
The word "jailbird" also appears a few times. A number of individuals are also named in the kind sophomoric trash-talk one finds scrawled on high school bathroom stalls.
If it's on camera why weren't the arrested on the spot? Isn't anyone watching the live video? Aren't cars in the parking lot supposed to be protected? Is the security guard asleep?
And how does this happen in Richmond. Isn't it 90% Chinese? Should these guys be pummeled? Aren't there any eyewitnesses? Where is everyone!?
Friday, April 4, 2008
Racism? Still?
Resentment towards Vancouver's visible majority
If there's racism in Vancouver there must be in the rest of Canada right?
But here in Calgary I've never felt much racism. Growing up I wasn't a victim of any slurs. I was quite comfortable and enjoyed my high-school years. I work with people from many-races now and there's no problem. And socially I've been been to pretty much every club and bar in Calgary and I've never felt unwanted.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Please answer the poll question. Feel free to elaborate in the comments section.
If there's racism in Vancouver there must be in the rest of Canada right?
But here in Calgary I've never felt much racism. Growing up I wasn't a victim of any slurs. I was quite comfortable and enjoyed my high-school years. I work with people from many-races now and there's no problem. And socially I've been been to pretty much every club and bar in Calgary and I've never felt unwanted.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Please answer the poll question. Feel free to elaborate in the comments section.
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