Cross-Burning in Nova Scotia

6 Responses to “Cross-Burning in Nova Scotia”

1. stan squires on February 23rd, 2010 1:57 pm

   I am from vancouver and i wanted to say that racism in canada is caused by the actions of the federal and provincial govs.Immigrants in canada are been arrested continually under the security certificate law and immigrants in canada who visit their homeland have trouble getting back to canada.This has to stop.It will be up to the working class in canada to stop this racism. The gov. is not capable of doing it.

2. Ryan MacIsaac on February 23rd, 2010 7:51 pm

   Simply horrible. During Black History Month at that.

3. Marc on February 24th, 2010 10:32 am

   A horrible incident indeed. However, it can hardly be taken as evidence of unchecked racism in the area and the Country.

   http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1169218.html:

   “RCMP spokeswoman Sgt. Bridgit Leger said the two accused and the victims are known to each other and the incident was not a random act of violence.”

   …

   “Lyon said Tuesday the couple is overwhelmed by the support they are receiving from friends, neighbours and supporters.”

4. Omar Ha-Redeye on February 25th, 2010 6:18 am

   The opposite may also be true:

   Carol Aylward, associate professor at Dalhousie Law School, warned that focusing on specific incidents can prevent recognition of the day-to-day reality faced by black Nova Scotians.

   “The cross-burning is just an open sign of what is under the surface,” she said. “Most people in the black community call Nova Scotia the Mississippi of the North.”

5. Lord Hysteria on January 15th, 2011 12:32 pm

   Personally? I believe the very idea of cross-burnings in Nova Scotia these days is unbelievably unacceptable and should not be tolerated. This type of behaviour is what one would have expected in the early 1800′s from whites in Nova Scotia towards the black immigrants from the United States, not today in 2010-2011…We should be LESS ignorant of multicultural society and MORE accepting of differences…These guys obviously weren’t sorry for what they did….They’re just sorry that they ended up getting caught…

6. Nadeem on April 19th, 2011 12:14 pm

   Whether we’d like to admit it or not but SOME white Canadians are racist and or ethnocentric.Currently I’m back in residing in my birth province(New Brunswick)but for a few years I resided in Nova Scotia and in retrospect I wondered what if I was experiencing racism or overt racism? Incidentally I’m not an African-Canadian I’m a brown Asian-Canadian.

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