Look, I'm not doing a very good job making my point, so I'll just sum it up this way.
Calgary is no anomaly when it comes to racism... no better or no worse.
As for my rants about institutional racism... wouldn't it be nice if everyone was treated as equals? As long as there are people getting better (or worse) deals cause of the colour of their skin, we're never gonna get rid of racism. It has to start from the government. When the government says "we're not hiring white males, only women and minorities" (See Dept. of Public Works), they are setting an example that everyone is different... differences lead to jockeying, jockeying leads to racism. Why not, everyone applies, the best get in, we don't care what you look like, everyone is the same.
I might have sounded a bit bigoted in my last couple posts, but that wasn't my intent.
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