The current Prime Minister recently publicly contradicted RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki, for saying there is no systemic racism within the RCMP. Actually, Lucki said she didn’t know what “systemic racism” is.
In her words, “I have to admit, I really struggle with the term ‘systemic racism’. I have heard about five or ten definitions on TV. I think that if systemic racism is entrenched in our police and our procedures we don’t have systemic racism”.
The Prime Minister had none of that. According to him, not only was the RCMP “systemically racist” – whatever that means – all Canada’s institutions are “systemically racist”. A troop of his political supporters then loyally repeated his mantra. Yet, neither the Prime Minister nor his supporters were able to give a coherent definition of what being “systemically racist” was – even though they had just branded the RCMP and the whole country with that “racist” label.
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