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Wes Hall

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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/06/13/i-saw-no-examples-of-black-corporate-leaders-talking-about-systemic-racism-so-im-speaking-up.html

When a maintenance worker comes to my house and I answer the door and he tells me to go get Mr. Hall, this is anti-Black systemic racism.When my biracial 6-year-old comes home from school and says to his white mother, “I don’t want to be Black anymore,” because he was called the N-word, this is anti-Black systemic racism.When my boys are at the park playing basketball and a neighbour calls the police and the police order them to clean up all the garbage in the entire park and leave, this is anti-Black systemic racism.
When my daughter is called the N-word at an exclusive private school in Toronto, this is anti-Black systemic racism.​
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If an upstanding business man is being stopped on a regular basis by the police while driving, if his children are being forced to clean up parks by police and then leave, imagine what regular people of African descent

And some people wonder why some groups might be angry
 
Lord Tammerlain said:



[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/06/13/i-saw-no-examples-of-black-corporate-leaders-talking-about-systemic-racism-so-im-speaking-up.html


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If an upstanding business man is being stopped on a regular basis by the police while driving, if his children are being forced to clean up parks by police and then leave, imagine what regular people of African descent

And some people wonder why some groups might be angry
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Lord Tammerlain:

Thanks for posting the video. I had no idea who Wes Hall is, but his messages about racism, profiling and glass ceilings keeping black folks out of corporate boardrooms are all good to hear. We have more work to do here in Canada.

I wonder, given his Jamaican accent, whether he is any relation to Sir Wesley Hall the famous cricketer and later politician from Jamaica? That's the only Wes Hall I knew of until watching your linked video.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
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