Canadian Parliamentary Black Caucus: Fake Victims and Racists Themselves

Vincent J. Curtis

17 June 20

Members of the Canadian Parliamentary Black Caucus, through spokesman Greg Fergus, MP, today called for "action" on systemic racism in Canada.  None of the black MPs and senators who are calling for “action” on racism can claim to be victims of systemic racism themselves.  Their careers and political success deny it.

These members of the Parliamentary Black Caucus have three thing in common: ignorance of Canadian history, a hatred of Conservatives (whom they excluded); and they wouldn’t know “systemic racism” if they showered with it, which they do, every day.

They cannot, they dare not, try to define what systemic racism is.  With one notable exception, systemic racism is illegal in Canada.  It’s illegal under the Federal Bill of Rights of 1960; it’s illegal under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and it’s illegal under the various provincial Bills of Human Rights.  Unless people are speaking of Platonic Forms, the only place systemic racism can exist (excluding the exception) is in the hearts and minds of individual people.  But it’s legal to exist there because Section 2 of the Charter of Rights enshrines the rights to freedom of thought, belief, and expression.  Those words weren’t put there to protect only popular thoughts and beliefs.

The only legitimate “action” that can be undertaken to suppress racism that exists in the hearts and minds of Canadians is jawboning.  Anything else would be an arrogant and hypocritical violation of the Charter of Rights.  No Canadian should be discriminated against by his own government because of what he believed or thought.  That’s systemic discrimination.

The group said, "For more than 400 years, Black Canadians contributed to what all Canadians enjoy today, in spite of the legal, social, and economica barriers."

It is impossible that for more than four hundred years, black Canadians contributed to what Canadians enjoy today because the earliest ‘Canada’ be said to have come into being is 1791 with the passage of the first Constitution Act 229 years ago.  The first Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe signed into law a bill prohibiting slavery in Upper Canada in 1794.

The greatest number of blacks in Canada today come from the British Commonwealth, not descended from U.S. slaves.  Greg Fergus’s grandfather immigrated to Canada from Montserrat, a British Protectorate.

It is deceitful for Fergus to imply a claim on 400 year of Canadian oppression, or contributions to Canadian success, through his race.  (A racist thought, come to think about it.)

Speaking of arrogant and hypocritical, the Parliamentary Black Caucus is itself an explicitly racist association.

These fake victims practice racism themselves without the least embarrassment or even awareness.
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