Robert-Falcon Ouellette faces racism during mayoral campaign

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Robert-Falcon Ouellette faces racism during mayoral campaign
Topic Started: Jun 26 2014, 12:12 PM (114 Views)
Darcie	Jun 26 2014, 12:12 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Winnipeg mayoral candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette is exposing the racism he's faced so far in his campaign. Ouellette, 37, spoke entirely in French at the Francophone Chamber of Commerce mayoral debate in St. Boniface last week. Not long afterward, abusive comments were posted online on Ouellette's Facebook page, first about his decision to speak French, then about his aboriginal heritage. He also received hateful emails. The comments ranged from "you are lower-class" to angry obscenities about Indians and French people. "Go back to drinking. That’s where Indians belong," said one. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/robert-falcon-ouellette-faces-racism-during-mayoral-campaign-1.2686918?cmp=rss Unfortunately he is right, what a sick bunch of people we have. Quote: “If there's one person saying it, there's 1,000 people thinking it." Oulette said this isn’t the first time he’s experienced racism. "You know, I have my PhD, two master's degrees and a bachelor's degree. I was in the army for 18 years, and no matter, it seems, what I do, for some people it's never enough," he said.



Dana	Jun 27 2014, 05:05 AM Post #2
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	All of us are born ignorant and obviously some do not bother to become educated. Easy to see the ignorance after any article written on native issues in Canada, in the comments sections. Sad but true. Even more sad, that those people are not ashamed to voice their hatred so publicly.



Darcie	Jun 27 2014, 06:05 AM Post #3
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Dana Jun 27 2014, 05:05 AM All of us are born ignorant and obviously some do not bother to become educated. Easy to see the ignorance after any article written on native issues in Canada, in the comments sections. Sad but true. Even more sad, that those people are not ashamed to voice their hatred so publicly. It's because they know that the majority feel that way. I just had someone tell me that their daughter was going out with am RCMP in Alberta and he was waiting to be transfered out of a northern town as he was fed up with babysitting the indians who were always drunk. When we have attitudes like that, from what see as the top down, it is a license to not only think the same way but to raise the rhetoric.



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