Biography and Autobiography

Putting Race on the Table

It has been a rather over-decorated Saturday for the issue of racial and cultural awareness. Below is a notification of two meaningful events next month regarding a more progressive cultural awareness in our very unsullied [but not really] community.

When I think about race and civics I look at BC's legislature and our nation's House of Parliament and see an unjustifiable superabundance of white men.

I think about two StatsCan reports over the last several years that hit the front point of Vancouver's daily papers describing how in impartial under 10 years, white people in Canada will dip below 50% of our natives. Short of putting racial and gender quotas into our legislatures, I don't see how that will arrest over 50% of our legislators from continuing to be white men...unless, of programme naturally, there is an intentional, pro-active cultural dialogue about what image really means. And we can't have that unless we put race on the victuals and not in a tokenist or affirmative action sense.

So as well as the events below, I received by email today this see from the OECD, that grand promoter of corporate neo-feudalism and neoliberal homogenized globalization. In it we study that the OECD thinks that "OECD governments needfulness to do more to help immigrants integrate and make superiority use of their skills." They are, of course, right. They are also, of course, unfair.

While OECD countries are domestically xenophobic about letting "them" discharge "their" vocations "here" because "they" may have learned to become brain surgeons or engineers in hairy "overseas" "schools," we who are already running the OECD nations are also vitalized to shore up our national crises of declining blood rates and the threat of not being able to support the like mad aging boomers--many of whom are the white men in legislatures who reproduce the corporate white men who run things around here.

The flip side is that while a creation ago Canadians were worried about the brain drain...

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