Acknowledging the complexities of cultural change within the Black community is essential. While it won't be easy, fostering open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, and embracing diversity of thought and behaviour could be steps toward shifting cultural norms.
Read MoreThe strong correlation between culture and race in America has allowed the term Black to be used interchangeably to describe both. Since it is generally accepted that race cannot be altered, it, in turn, encourages the delusion that Blacks are pawns in a hopeless fate that lies in the hands of structural forces just beyond their reach. It fosters the perspective that nothing can be done within Black communities to change their relatively poor social and economic outcomes.
However, if we can…
Read MoreUnlike race, which is perceived as natural and unchangeable, ethnicity or culture is flexible and can be altered. It can be enhanced by opening up to other cultures and assimilating or being influenced by new knowledge or aspects of a new culture to improve one’s way of life. The American culture, for example, has impacted the cultures of millions of people worldwide through its movies, music and educational system. My family and others from hundreds of different cultures…
Read MoreIn 2024, the most bang for our buck is bringing the focus back into our community. We need a mindset change. We need clarity on things within our control as individuals. We need to focus on what we can control and burn down the bridges of excuses that society has built for us. This will leave us no choice but to take responsibility for our outcomes. Only then can the breakthroughs start. We no longer wait for others; we are empowered.
Read MoreIt is overdue for the federal government to lift the vaccination requirement to fly within Canada. Unvaccinated Canadians are essentially being treated as second class citizens for choosing not to go along with a general societal narrative. Whenever there is a situation where any group is singled out
Read MoreI had been living in Canada for 10 years when the BLM protests came in full swing in the summer of 2020. Every conversation was around the struggles of living in Canada as a black person. The number of white folks that leaned into me as the authority on the topic of racism based on my ‘lived experience’ more than quadrupled. Non-blacks especially whites seemed extremely humble over the next few months and were willing to sit at the feet of any
Read MoreI loved Woke Racism. John said a lot of things I have thought about and expressed ideas I have often been unable to put into words with regard to the woke movement being a religion. Over the last 6 or so years, I have watched in dismay as young adults who were brought up in the church left…
Read MoreOver the last decade, I observed as minority groups have demanded more opportunities and blamed the ‘system’ for any disparity between their personal achievements or statistical progress and those of majority groups. While often deliberately ignoring the fact that within each of these groups there are several individuals who do not meet the generalized definitions of that groups success or…
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