Watch Desmond Cole talk racism in Toronto on CBC’s Metro Morning

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1. racism does exist in Canada,stop shoving it under the carpet ,

2. “racism does exist in Canada,stop shoving it under the carpet”

   Disproportionate crime being committed by blacks does exist in Canada, stop shoving it under the carpet.

   Why do police not follow Asians around? Because as a visible minority they aren’t disproportionately involved with crime. End of story. Face it.

   Go to U of T and count all the Asian kids. That’s where they’re disproportionately represented.

   Stop blaming police for having to deal with the disaster that is black American ghetto culture, and the idiotic black Canadians that adopt it. Stop pretending that black youth culture doesn’t propagates its own misery. Stop pretending Desmond Cole and Matt Galloway are somehow representatives of the populations that live in priority neighborhoods. Stop pretending that Desmond Cole isn’t using a victimhood narrative when he talks about police attention as if it somehow isn’t a direct response to the reality of disproportionate amount of crime coming out of poor black diaspora communities.

   White liberals moan about the police, because they’re too scared to complain about black youth, and the disaster which is black American ghetto culture, or the vile criminal sub-cultures within Somali and Jamaican communities.

   It’s too “dangerous” for white liberals to ever criticize blacks, in any capacity, because they’re terrified of being called racist, so out of their cowardice they blame the (preferably white) cops for doing their jobs and being in high crime neighborhoods and interacting with the people who live there.

   It’s a safe target for the condescending rich white liberals of Rosedale, Forest Hill, Leaside, and the Beaches, for whom this magazine is produced.

   Make white liberals feel comfortable, in their safe outrage towards cops, in their safe rich white enclaves, while cops have to go into priority neighborhoods and put their lives on the line.

   Oh you hired a black chief of police? You denied other people the job because of their race, so that you could give it to a black guy? That’s a good white liberal, another safe pointless overture, but at least it shows you’re not racist (somehow), which is all that’s important, so here’s your cookie.

   And yet more black kids will get killed by other black kids, as white liberals pat themselves on the back after another pointless cowardly round of blaming cops for doing their jobs, and risking their lives.

3. Thank YOU for finally cutting through da bull!! Now If only whites would stop letting ethnic pple use the race card to get what they want while being very racist themselves!!

4. One problem is the shifting or moving around of the area that police officers patrol. If the same officer actually stays in a neighbourhood for their entire career, they would end up knowing the people. They would know person A comes home from work at 1 AM in the morning. They would know person A’s name already, without having to look them up in their computer.

   Might be a good start if the police officers actually get out of their cruisers and walk around the neighbourhood.

5. Jerome Studdart Mr Cole is writing about his experience, and I am writing about my experience,The news hype up African Canadian crimes, and other people crimes is not reported. Most African Canadian are honest hard working people.The news never report postivies African Canadian does, The carding in Toronto people should collect money and fight it in the Supreme Court of Canada, which is all white, one world one people one love Shalom

6. Addressing underacknowledged racism in our country is in no way shoving crime statistics under the carpet. If anything, it asks for a more comprehensive look at the socio-economic issues that create disproportionate crime; it is an effort to resolve or improve the underlying causes of the problem instead of merely reacting to the physical manifestations.

   Police attention is as much a direct response to crime statistics as those crime rates are a direct response to the race, class, and systematic discriminatory issues at the root. Neither the former nor the latter should be ignored.

   While Asians face a different kind of discrimination (from the community instead), it evokes many of the same feelings of alienation, denigration, and fear.

7. Ha! in my experience and that of many others that i know of asians are among the racist humans on this planet no matter parts of the world that they move to so don’t even go there! Had an asian from BC call our company to place an ad stating that they wanted to have no blacks living in their precious canadian property which we could not allow, so really don’t even go there!!

8. Rianna, You’ve misunderstood me. I did not claim that there are no racist Asians. I agree with other comments you’ve made that there are racists of every race. The only reason I bring up my race, or any other race, at all, is to point out how we all face discrimination, whether it’s from the police, the community, or any other group, and should be able to empathize with each other.

   The main point of my comment was that our communities need to address socio-economic issues. These are ignored when we generalize and turn the problem into a stereotype.

9. So how do racially-biased policies play out in practice? A 2002 study by researchers at the University of Washington focused on arrest patterns in the Seattle Police Department when it came to drug-related policing. As the Report summarized, the authors found that it was untrue stereotypes about crack markets, crack dealers, and crack babies—not facts—that were driving discretionary decision making by the Seattle Police Department.
   The facts were as follows: Seattle residents were far more likely to report suspected narcotics activities in residences—not outdoors—but police devoted their resources to open-air drug markets and to the one precinct that was least likely to be identified as the site of suspected drug activity in citizen complaints. In fact, although hundreds of outdoor drug transactions were recorded in predominantly white areas of Seattle, police concentrated their drug enforcement efforts in one downtown drug market where the frequency of drug transactions was much lower. In racially mixed open-air drug markets,
   black dealers were far more likely to be arrested than whites, even though white dealers were present and visible. And the department focused overwhelmingly on crack—the one drug in Seattle more likely to be sold by African Americans—despite the fact that local hospital records indicated that overdose deaths involving heroin were more numerous than all overdose deaths for crack and powder cocaine combined. Local police acknowledged that no significant level of violence was associated with crack in Seattle and that other drugs were causing more hospitalizations, but steadfastly maintained that
   their deployment decisions were non-discriminatory.”

   The War on Drugs also relies on a massive number of stops and searches but with shockingly small results. One study found that “up to 99 percent of traffic stops made by federally funded narcotics task forces result in no citation.” But the 1 percent of stops and searches that DO result in a citation, especially for black/brown men from poor neighborhoods, leads to a “parade of guilty people” in the courts that makes it
   look like drug crimes are primarily committed by black/brown men. And this
   appearance convinces judges that when police make arrests, they are acting on
   some magical ‘hunch’ that turns out to be right—even if the facts don’t bear
   out—so the courts explicitly authorize the use of ‘profiles’ in policing.

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