{"id":13022,"date":"2021-10-02T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2021-10-02T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T01:11:41","slug":"when-will-we-stop-using-both-the-media-and-concepts-like-systemic-racism-as-political-weapons-instead-of-focusing-on-solving-peoples-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/when-will-we-stop-using-both-the-media-and-concepts-like-systemic-racism-as-political-weapons-instead-of-focusing-on-solving-peoples-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"When will we stop using both the media and concepts like &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; as political weapons instead of focusing on solving people&#8217;s problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/QuestionMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13024\" width=\"169\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/QuestionMark.jpg 657w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/QuestionMark-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/renewed-calls-systemic-racism-1.6196706\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/renewed-calls-systemic-racism-1.6196706<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8235822\/quebec-coroner-report-joyce-echaquan-systemic-racism\/\">https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8235822\/quebec-coroner-report-joyce-echaquan-systemic-racism\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/quebecers-are-fine-with-use-of-term-systemic-racism-despite-rejection-by-political-leaders-study-1.5606348\">https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/quebecers-are-fine-with-use-of-term-systemic-racism-despite-rejection-by-political-leaders-study-1.5606348<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-citynews-montreal\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ob0Imffmxf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.citynews.ca\/video\/2021\/10\/01\/advocates-demand-systemic-racism-be-recognized-in-quebec\/\">Advocates demand systemic racism be recognized in Quebec<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Advocates demand systemic racism be recognized in Quebec&#8221; &#8212; CityNews Montreal\" src=\"https:\/\/montreal.citynews.ca\/video\/2021\/10\/01\/advocates-demand-systemic-racism-be-recognized-in-quebec\/embed\/#?secret=Ob0Imffmxf\" data-secret=\"Ob0Imffmxf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the list goes on and on&#8230;  in both official languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, it is the concept of &#8220;<em>systemic racism<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps yesterday, it was another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow or in the future, it will most likely be another concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue is not the concept of the day. The issue is that, sadly, the crying problems are not being addressed. Discrimination in all its forms, including racism, is among these problems that need to be solved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we are increasingly seeing in Canada is slogans. Sometimes empty ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How sad&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/renewed-calls-systemic-racism-1.6196706 https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8235822\/quebec-coroner-report-joyce-echaquan-systemic-racism\/ https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/quebecers-are-fine-with-use-of-term-systemic-racism-despite-rejection-by-political-leaders-study-1.5606348 And the list goes on and on&#8230; in both official languages. Today, it is the concept of &#8220;systemic racism&#8220;. Perhaps yesterday, it was another one. Tomorrow or in the future, it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}