{"id":6815,"date":"2020-09-28T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:24:00","slug":"black-journalism-fellowship-program-with-cbc-radio-canada-and-ctv-news-is-this-form-of-apartheid-our-latest-canadian-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/black-journalism-fellowship-program-with-cbc-radio-canada-and-ctv-news-is-this-form-of-apartheid-our-latest-canadian-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Journalism Fellowship program with CBC\/Radio-Canada and CTV News: Is this form of apartheid our latest Canadian lunacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Apartheid.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6816\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Apartheid.jpg 457w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Apartheid-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 85vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/cjf-launches-black-journalism-fellowship-program-with-cbc-radio-canada-and-ctv-news-868722052.html\">https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/cjf-launches-black-journalism-fellowship-program-with-cbc-radio-canada-and-ctv-news-868722052.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjf-fjc.ca\/awards\/cjf-black-journalism-fellowship-program\">https:\/\/cjf-fjc.ca\/awards\/cjf-black-journalism-fellowship-program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can someone explain to\nBambi what is the purpose of initiatives like \u201c<em>Black Journalism Fellowship<\/em>\u201d\nor prior to it the \u201c<em>Indigenous Journalism Fellowship<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is the underlying message\nthat such fellows cannot compete in the regular competitions of excellence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it a good thing to\ndivide us like that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we will eventually\nhave the Arab or Jewish or Muslim Journalism Fellowships? Or the left-handed journalism\nfellowship? Or the short-people fellowship award?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will we stop and\nthink about the consequences of our divisive policies and funding programs? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can\u2019t we be a professional\njournalist reporting facts and being respectful of people without being part of\nthis tribe or that tribe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we be of Lebanese\norigins to be able to report on the Beirut explosion and its human tragic\nconsequences?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we indulge in\nprostitution ourselves to be able to support sex workers, to cite one of Bambi\u2019s\nformer professors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will we stop creating\ninterest groups and making them holy (but only superficially without ever\naddressing any of their serious issues)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this our new Canadian\nway of living from now on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will there be any Canada\nleft in 25, 50, or 100 years if we all become like tribes living next to each\nother instead of being collectively one country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/cjf-launches-black-journalism-fellowship-program-with-cbc-radio-canada-and-ctv-news-868722052.html https:\/\/cjf-fjc.ca\/awards\/cjf-black-journalism-fellowship-program Can someone explain to Bambi what is the purpose of initiatives like \u201cBlack Journalism Fellowship\u201d or prior to it the \u201cIndigenous Journalism Fellowship\u201d? Is the underlying message that such fellows cannot compete in [&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\/6815"}],"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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}