{"id":9760,"date":"2021-03-15T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:58:17","slug":"systemic-racism-is-the-government-of-new-brunswick-lucid-or-wise-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/systemic-racism-is-the-government-of-new-brunswick-lucid-or-wise-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSystemic\u201d racism: Is the government of New Brunswick lucid or wise enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In its oddly named section called \u201cBeing black in Canada\u201d<\/em> (of course without an open readers\u2019 comment section) we learn from the CBC<\/em> the following about the province of New Brunswick: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/black-racism-new-brunswick-1.5948603<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Department of Post-Secondary Education,\nTraining and Labour says it will spend about $85,000 to create a team of\nresearchers, including members of the New Brunswick Community College, the\npresident of Black Lives Matter New Brunswick and two professionals<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, our Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister, Mr. Trevor Holder informs us of the following: “We know that systemic racism in New Brunswick is a significant issue and our government is committed to addressing it”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here are some burning questions that Bambi can\nspontaneously think of now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Why are we conducting a research study if we\nalready know its conclusion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. It costs $85K just to create a team of \u201cresearchers?\nIsn\u2019t this too expensive? Is it a good use of our public funds? Related to\nthis, from where does this funding come from? As a non-expert citizen, Bambi is\ncurious. Is she the only one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Who is truly in charge of setting the research and societal agenda (report and recommendations, etc.) here: Mr. Martin (i.e. CEO of the BLM NB<\/em> organization) or Mr. Holder (i.e. our majority government)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mr. Martin: “From every organization I’ve spoken with in regards to health and education, justice and social development, they are very [much] looking forward to these outcomes and being able to implement them and to begin dismantling systemic racism.”<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. One final question begs itself here and this brings\nBambi back to her first question: What is \u201csystemic racism\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post, a first logical step in a research process is to begin by defining a concept before looking at any metric related to it: What is? How do we measure it? What could be its so-called indicators, barriers, facilitators, etc. For instance, a cheaper alternative to this study could have been to have a scholar or teams of scholars conduct what we call a \u201cconcept analysis\u201d on the meaning of this term to reach a clear or full consensus definition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another more constructive alternative approach (in the long-term at least\u2026) could have been perhaps an approach similar to Qu\u00e9bec\u2026? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/1872926275564<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its oddly named section called \u201cBeing black in Canada\u201d (of course without an open readers\u2019 comment section) we learn from the CBC the following about the province of New Brunswick: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/black-racism-new-brunswick-1.5948603 \u201cThe Department of […]<\/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\/9760"}],"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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}