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Originally Posted by Wedge
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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I also conducted a "visual survey" of the ceremonies in Vancouver and Surrey. Miraculously found many people who don't appear to be some sort of European decent.
Maybe you only saw what you were looking to see. Just sayin...
