As upsetting to some as Cherry's comments are, what if what he said is true? Is he still a bad guy if what he said is true? Yes, I get it, a person can't say such things. How dare they!
I live in Vancouver and was out this morning (between 8:40 and 10:30) and did a completely objective (but obviously not at all scientifically or statistically representative) visual survey. I did not include runners, cyclists, or babies. Five people out of 282 were wearing poppies … three "white" men and two "white" women. Roughly a quarter of the people I saw were "white". I was disgusted by the primary conclusion to be made, that being how few people in general were without a poppy. Again, I get that this is hardly something to draw any thought changing conclusion from.
In Cherry's comments I believe he did say in downtown Toronto "nobody" wears a poppy. Such ignorance seems to exist here in Vancouver as well.
I obviously don't usually (as in never) look at such things, and only did because of the backlash.
I attended an 11 o' clock Remembrance Day service at the closest cemetery/cenotaph and predictably the numbers were far different with over 90% in attendance wearing a poppy. There was however only one South Asian family there, one East Asian family there and one "African-Canadian" family there, and the rest being of some sort of European decent.
Just sayin ...
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