Lately I’ve been whittling down my sub stack subscriptions. I’ve reached a limit of how much political and social commentary I care to take in. Yours is the only obvious keeper for me. Your writing is clear, thought provoking and without dramatization. Thank you!
The Glenn Loury quote there is spot on. The only way equality in those sense could possibly be "conferred" on us by white people would be within the context of an authoritarian tyranny where everyone's life status was predetermined at birth or by government fiat. That's an "equality" that would be far worse than the inequality with which we are currently afflicted.
Jamil....I've been collecting your emails in hopes to fully read them in the future...so sorry...I don't hav much to say other than "you rock"..honestly...I heard you while driving back from my folks in Niagara....somehow I switched the station to AM 610 and you're voice drew me in...and then the conversation was exactly what I was thinking at the time...but I only had a month and then you got Terminated..UGhhh....
Please...Please consider doing online blogs...posts or videos...as a Canadian...your words are up there with Peterson, Murphy and a few others.. We need more folks like you to speak up and be heard (and not shunned like what happened)....
And if your ever in Toronto..there's always a place at the dinner table for you my friend...cheers YOP
And that's why Subdtack is worh every penny! Thank you Jamil - very timely piece given Bill - C-67. I am reading Woke Racism and after that I will read White fragility and compare these to this bill. I am a white 48 yr old male with 2 boys. I believe we need to all understand the complexities of the left, center and right. I also believe this bill will do more harm than good for children and teenagers in the tangled mess we (adults) created.
Maybe you could try to reconcile Glen Loury's viewpoint:
"If we Blacks want to walk with dignity, if we want to be truly equal, then we must realize that white people can not give us equality. We actually have to earn equal status."
with your complaint about Kevin Yarde losing his NDP nomination contest to Sandeep Singh (who won 88% of the vote). And here I thought the POC part of BIPOC was "People of Color"?
Do you mean this in relation to Canada? "academics argue that inequalities are caused by external factors (e.g. racism, public policy, historical disadvantages)" While I acknowledge that many people of all colours are racist, I don't understand the public policy/historical disadvantages part of the statemnent. Haven't most people of colour come to Canada in the last 50 years? I know of no public policies the have been discriminatory or historical inequities. Pardon my naivete/ignorance if this is wrong.
Lately I’ve been whittling down my sub stack subscriptions. I’ve reached a limit of how much political and social commentary I care to take in. Yours is the only obvious keeper for me. Your writing is clear, thought provoking and without dramatization. Thank you!
The Glenn Loury quote there is spot on. The only way equality in those sense could possibly be "conferred" on us by white people would be within the context of an authoritarian tyranny where everyone's life status was predetermined at birth or by government fiat. That's an "equality" that would be far worse than the inequality with which we are currently afflicted.
Jamil....I've been collecting your emails in hopes to fully read them in the future...so sorry...I don't hav much to say other than "you rock"..honestly...I heard you while driving back from my folks in Niagara....somehow I switched the station to AM 610 and you're voice drew me in...and then the conversation was exactly what I was thinking at the time...but I only had a month and then you got Terminated..UGhhh....
Please...Please consider doing online blogs...posts or videos...as a Canadian...your words are up there with Peterson, Murphy and a few others.. We need more folks like you to speak up and be heard (and not shunned like what happened)....
And if your ever in Toronto..there's always a place at the dinner table for you my friend...cheers YOP
And that's why Subdtack is worh every penny! Thank you Jamil - very timely piece given Bill - C-67. I am reading Woke Racism and after that I will read White fragility and compare these to this bill. I am a white 48 yr old male with 2 boys. I believe we need to all understand the complexities of the left, center and right. I also believe this bill will do more harm than good for children and teenagers in the tangled mess we (adults) created.
Maybe you could try to reconcile Glen Loury's viewpoint:
"If we Blacks want to walk with dignity, if we want to be truly equal, then we must realize that white people can not give us equality. We actually have to earn equal status."
with your complaint about Kevin Yarde losing his NDP nomination contest to Sandeep Singh (who won 88% of the vote). And here I thought the POC part of BIPOC was "People of Color"?
Do you mean this in relation to Canada? "academics argue that inequalities are caused by external factors (e.g. racism, public policy, historical disadvantages)" While I acknowledge that many people of all colours are racist, I don't understand the public policy/historical disadvantages part of the statemnent. Haven't most people of colour come to Canada in the last 50 years? I know of no public policies the have been discriminatory or historical inequities. Pardon my naivete/ignorance if this is wrong.