Black Writer Calls for Segregation. More concern for community than children.

Vincent J. Curtis

19 Feb 15

Evelyn Myrie is a stupid woman who happens to be black.  Because she is black, no one has the nerve to say that she is stupid.  The proof that she is stupid comes from all the of allegedly progressive ideas she advocates without any consciousness of the consequences of what she is saying.  There are many intelligent people of the left, but holding left-wing ideas is no sign of intelligence.  It takes a nimble intelligence to advocate left-wing ideas without tripping over oneself, and Evelyn Myrie stumbles over herself practically every time she says something publicly.

In an Op-ed article published today in the Hamilton Spectator, Myrie attacked the Children's Aid Society for racism disguised as racial insensitivity.  The occasion for this attack was the discovery that 41 % of the CAS caseload in Toronto were black children.  Myrie was of the opinion that this indicated that the CAS was "too quick" to seize black children from abusive situations.  In the same article, Myrie also dredged up the outrage of the (Islamic) Somali community that found that Muslim children in the custody of the CAS were - horrors! - being placed in non-Muslim homes.

Evelyn Myrie has parlayed her blackness and her sharp tongue into a career of prominence in Hamilton.  She may be a heroine for some, but for me if what she does was an act of consciousness, she is race huckster.

Below are my remarks to the Spectator on the occasion of Myrie's attack on the Children's Aid Society.


Sirs;

When race hucksters like Evelyn Myrie complain, the wrong people get hurt.  In the case of this article, it is children in the care of the Children’s Aid Society.  It is her opinion that many of them belong back in the homes from which they were taken.

When 8.2 % of the population contribute 41% of the cases in Children’s Aid, the problem is not with racist Children’s Aid Workers, or workers who are acting “too quick;” the problem is with a dysfunctional culture and a dysfunctional community.  Evelyn Myrie’s community.

Evelyn Myrie calls for a CAS exclusively for black families.  She needs to rub her eyes and look at those statistics again: 41 % of the caseload of the CAS is black.  If by a CAS exclusively for black families she means a CAS staffed entirely by black people who only look after black children, then there would have to be an exclusively white CAS who looked only after white children, and blacks be damned.  I thought the days of segregation were over!

As Evelyn Myrie stumbled about looking for other excuses to throw at the CAS, she came up with the criticism by the Somali community that some Muslim children were not placed in Muslim foster homes.  If she knew anything about Islam, Myrie would have recognized that the argument of Islamic exceptionalism is the same one used to justify Islamic extremism.  Children’s Aid as we understand it is not something that occurs in the Islamic culture, and it comes as no surprise to me that there might be a shortage of foster homes in the Muslim community.

In her call for the creation of an exclusively white and Christian Children’s Aid Society, Myrie not only serves to harm the children who need Children’s Aid but she reinforces racism that we all that thought was abolished decades ago.

The one thing Myrie did not do was take responsibility for those children who are harmed as a result of a CAS made gun-shy by folks like her.
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