If you are concerned about the roots of racism and intolerance in Canada, you owe it to yourself to listen to this 25 minutes podcast of Tanya Talaga from the Aug. 29, 2024 broadcast of CBC’s The Current.
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Tanya purports that the racism behind the treatment of Indigenous and Black people in the United States and Canada have the same basis, all emerging from the colonizers of both countries. She suggest it’s all about caste, the system which perceives that one group of people is superior to another, allowing them to mistreat and dehumanize the ‘other’. Tanya will have more to say in her new book called, The Knowing. In the meantime, you might want to read her previous books: All My Relations and Seven Fallen Feathers as well as Isabel Wilkerson’s book: Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (available in our church library).
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