http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/aboriginal-candidate-katherine-swampy-runs-against-racism-hate-1.3070112
This article talks about Katherine Swampy, a first nations woman running for the NDP in Edmonton. Being a first nations woman, Katherine faced an incredible amount of racism while campaigning. She estimated that she had received over a dozen hateful comments on social media per day. One person even went as far as saying she should "quit trying to turn Alberta into a reserve". This article really highlights how racism and unfair persecution is prevalent even in a society that is thought of as being incredibly forward thinking. Canadians are known throughout the world as being kind, fair and unprejudiced, and this article refutes that. These racist sentiments are eerily similar to the kind of comments jewish people faced during World War II. In The Book Thief, these comments are much more extreme, but still carry the same kind of hate. Jewish people were thought as being sub-human and inferior. Also, in the book it describes how these racially charged statements were literally painted on the doors of jewish shops, which is much more destructive than internet comments that can be easily removed. The comments towards Ms. Swampy are suggesting the same sort of thing as the then typical comments towards jews, that first nations people are somehow inferior to other Canadians. These people don't care about the fact she is well educated and passionate because all they can see is the colour of her skin. This kind of thinking is generally seen as something that is no longer a problem, but this article shows how these racist feelings are still incredibly common in the twenty first century. Racism is one of humanities' greatest shames, and is something that will likely always remain a problem.
This article talks about Katherine Swampy, a first nations woman running for the NDP in Edmonton. Being a first nations woman, Katherine faced an incredible amount of racism while campaigning. She estimated that she had received over a dozen hateful comments on social media per day. One person even went as far as saying she should "quit trying to turn Alberta into a reserve". This article really highlights how racism and unfair persecution is prevalent even in a society that is thought of as being incredibly forward thinking. Canadians are known throughout the world as being kind, fair and unprejudiced, and this article refutes that. These racist sentiments are eerily similar to the kind of comments jewish people faced during World War II. In The Book Thief, these comments are much more extreme, but still carry the same kind of hate. Jewish people were thought as being sub-human and inferior. Also, in the book it describes how these racially charged statements were literally painted on the doors of jewish shops, which is much more destructive than internet comments that can be easily removed. The comments towards Ms. Swampy are suggesting the same sort of thing as the then typical comments towards jews, that first nations people are somehow inferior to other Canadians. These people don't care about the fact she is well educated and passionate because all they can see is the colour of her skin. This kind of thinking is generally seen as something that is no longer a problem, but this article shows how these racist feelings are still incredibly common in the twenty first century. Racism is one of humanities' greatest shames, and is something that will likely always remain a problem.