{"id":9405,"date":"2021-02-16T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T21:06:26","slug":"g-khalil-gibran-pity-the-nation-divided-into-fragments-each-fragment-deeming-itself-a-nation-sadly-this-post-is-about-canada-not-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/16\/g-khalil-gibran-pity-the-nation-divided-into-fragments-each-fragment-deeming-itself-a-nation-sadly-this-post-is-about-canada-not-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"G. Khalil Gibran: \u201cPity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation\u201d. Sadly, this post is about Canada, not Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The title of this post is about Mr. Gibran Khalil Gibran\u2019s Garden of the\nProphet<\/em>, specifically his wise words about the sadness of countries divided\nby tribes instead of being unified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping this in mind, look at the new woke logic of some Canadian intellectuals, like Mr. Allen Alexandre <\/strong>(\u201ca veteran federal Liberal political organizer who has served many Trudeau cabinet ministers in a senior capacity<\/em>\u201d). In an article published in the Toronto Star<\/em>, we can read his article (https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/2021\/02\/16\/trudeau-george-floyd-and-the-emergence-of-black-canadian-identity.html<\/a>), entitled \u201cTrudeau, George Floyd, and the emergence of Black Canadian identity<\/em>\u201d. Here are some extracts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026But squeezed into the French\/English\nlanguage divide, these disparate groups\u2019 integration defaulted along the fault\nlines of Canada\u2019s two solitudes. And absent a clear common cause or issue to\nbring them together, their interactions ended up largely mirroring the dynamics\nof Canadian dualism in the decades that followed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until September 2019\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 At the social level, a number of\ninfluential Black-founded and Black-mandated organizations have burst onto the\nnational stage. They are led by a legion of young, pragmatic, and media savvy\ntorchbearers who are not hampered by the cultural, linguistic, and\ntechnological constraints that limited their parents\u2019 capacity to co-operate.\nCombined with movements, such as Black Lives Matter, these organizations\nrepresent a disruptive force that is accelerating the cohesion of 1.2 million\nBlack Canadians at an unforgiving pace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 In the end, history likely will regard\nJustin Trudeau as the most consequential prime minister for Black Canadians.\nBut ultimately, it will be his ability to absorb and embody the nascent Black\nCanadian collective consciousness that will determine whether, like his father,\nhe secures for his party the loyalty of yet another generation of Black\nCanadians\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at how the author is insinuating that a skin\ncolour (or so called-black Canadian identity, to use his own words) is more\nnoble and more meaningful than being Canadian or being Qu\u00e9becker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other parts of his article, he seems to be telling\nus how much younger generations know better than their parents\u2019 and\ngrand-parents\u2019 who immigrated to our beautiful country and contributed to\nbuilding it. For him, the patriotic project around their adoptive county is the\nmeaningless \u201ctwo solitudes<\/em>\u201d of Canada. How sad and how out of touch his\nvision is from an immigrant point of view. Is he telling us that a Haitian has\nmore in common with a Nigerian than a Haitian has in common with another francophone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Bambi and her parents, those parents he is referring to left disrupted or literally destroyed birth countries dreaming of this welcoming Canada, with its imperfections and stories\/histories. They love their adoptive country more than he can imagine. Bambi bets that most of them do not want to adhere to radical movements, like wokeism. They want to respect everyone and be respected by everyone. Not because they are from a so called “racialized” (= victimized) group, but because they are actually like everyone else. Of course, like everyone else, they are whom they are uniquely, that is whole individuals who are creative, resilient, and hard-working members of society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The multiculturalism of Mr Trudeau dad he is referring is of course interesting, but only up to a certain point\u2026 precisely, when more than ever, we need to remain united in order not to lose our soul or common points of reference as a nation or a country still in infancy. Not as a \u201cpost-national\u201d hotel or tent where tribes live (contrary to what Mr. Trudeau Junior said about Canada being a post-national country). This multiculturalism has no choice but to be reasonable and flexible. Else, it will keep lending itself to radical movements like the wokeism the author is describing. To cite one politician he did not mention in his article, namely Mr. Maxime Bernier, it is perhaps about time to \u201cpromote what unites us\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask any immigrant, whether from an African country,\nfrom Haiti, or from war-torn Lebanon, he or she will tell you about how much\nthey thrive to work hard, earn a living whilst raising their children in a\nunified country, that treats them with dignity without using them in empty yet\npotentially dangerous ideologies. If Mr. Trudeau can sincerely offer or still\noffer them this vision of Canada to them, they will vote for him. If not, like\nBambi did the last time, they will look elsewhere, even after having been a\nhistorical liberal voter and remaining a Classical Liberal believing in free\nthinking, free speech, and free love of one\u2019s country (even when the head of\nthis party does not seem to still believe in all this\u2026.).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post, this author may be wrong. It is the children or new generation he is talking about who may surprise him by refusing this neo-radicalim empty of substance (a type of neo-marxism) and eventually destructive. The majority of people, younger and more senior (even if it is silent) is not into radicalism, whether the latter comes from the left or the right (nowadays it is the left that seems to have gone crazy)\u2026 and even if such radical movements seem to be sanctioned by our state (or our institutions and brains taken over by them).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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