{"id":4630,"date":"2020-06-04T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:21:31","slug":"maybe-ms-hafsah-mohammad-was-quick-to-notice-that-she-was-one-of-the-few-people-of-colour-at-the-rally-because-the-others-are-busy-earning-a-living-and-sustaining-our-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/04\/maybe-ms-hafsah-mohammad-was-quick-to-notice-that-she-was-one-of-the-few-people-of-colour-at-the-rally-because-the-others-are-busy-earning-a-living-and-sustaining-our-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Ms. Hafsah Mohammad was &#8220;quick to notice that she was one of the few people of colour at the rally&#8221; because the others are busy earning a living and sustaining our economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/self-rightenous.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4633\" width=\"336\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/self-rightenous.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/self-rightenous-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/self-rightenous-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 85vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi is reacting here to the following <em>CBC<\/em> article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/sackville-anti-racism-rally-peaceful-1.5596842\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/sackville-anti-racism-rally-peaceful-1.5596842<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Yesterday evening, she reacted to the same topic featured in the <em>New Wark Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bambi-039-s-afkar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yK0CxGf5PL\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/03\/no-canada-is-not-systematically-racist-it-is-rather-becoming-radicalized-and-collectively-insane-in-front-of-our-eyes\/\">No, Canada is not systematically racist. It is rather becoming radicalized and collectively insane in front of our eyes<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe title=\"&#8220;No, Canada is not systematically racist. It is rather becoming radicalized and collectively insane in front of our eyes&#8221; &#8212; Bambi&#039;s Afkar\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/03\/no-canada-is-not-systematically-racist-it-is-rather-becoming-radicalized-and-collectively-insane-in-front-of-our-eyes\/embed\/#?secret=yK0CxGf5PL\" data-secret=\"yK0CxGf5PL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is Ms. Mohammad&#8217;s second visit to Sackville only, perhaps she should not be so self-righteous about our community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had she looked just across the street, she would have seen the delicious pizza place owned and managed by a Lebanese-Canadian family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the corner, we have other delicious restaurants with ethnic food (South Korean, Italian, Japanese, Chinese a little bit further down, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had she driven by the Bridge Street exist, she would have come across the business of a big entrepreneur in town also of Lebanese origins. This without mentioning the university&#8217;s, hospital&#8217;s, and schools&#8217; own diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the title of this post, everyone is busy earning a living or helping sustain the economy in pandemics. This even if everyone also and naturally wants our world to be free of violence, respectful, and welcoming to all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi does not know about others but she also hopes to keep seeing our community free of the coronavirus. Despite masks, are demonstrations across towns the wisest idea now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi is reacting here to the following CBC article: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/sackville-anti-racism-rally-peaceful-1.5596842 Yesterday evening, she reacted to the same topic featured in the New Wark Times: If this is Ms. Mohammad&#8217;s second visit to Sackville only, perhaps [&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\/4630"}],"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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}