Oh, by the way, your blog is cool. I’ll be linking to it in 5 minutes.

chinesecanuck went to white private school and so she thinks she’s more knowledgeable, educated, and better than most people of colour. While Toronto is generally diverse, chinesecanuck is isolated in a bubble of whiteness and rich people, and is generally ignorant about everyone else’s reality in Toronto.

Frankly, she embarrasses me and reinforces the stereotype of rich, racist Chinese Canadians. She also self-identifies as a “banana”: yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

Why do I do anything? We have Pathways! Let Pathways do all our work.

What ABOUT Pathways? You speak about this program as if it’s the Jesus of the education system. That’s right! Every single coloured kid in all of Canada can join Pathways or a program like it and POOF! Six hundred years of history will be gone and no longer have any effect upon their lives, sense of self or anything at all! Racism will just be solved over night.

It’s a miracle! Hallelujiah!

How could we have been so blind? Must be all the bling we’re wearing!

Gee-whiz, I wonder how many drop-outs, new immigrantants, pregnant teens and Coloured famillies who can barely make rent and eat bread and mustard for dinner (been there, done that) Pathways and it’s counterparts can help?

EVERYONE: Don’t worry! Pathways is here and all these problems will be gone just as soon as you stop making a big deal of racism!! Remain calm, everything is under control!!

Nope, no point in taking a stand or discussing anything. We can just sit here and let Pathways take over and not take any responsibility as a community or individuals at all!

Wow–I think you just discovered a way for us all to be EXACTLY like racist White people! Thanks, Chinese Canuck! ^_^

Continue to do nothing for others.

I will continue to try to help other people.

Especially, since you continue to not give a damn and refuse to listen and understand.

ChineseCannuck, is English not your first language? I don’t have Word and have problems with grammar, if I’m not speaking concisely enough to understand, please state what you are having trouble understanding. Though I think I have spoon fed you enough for one post.

Because there are people like you, people who are apathetic to the plight of others and who disregard the needs of other, proves to me that we need this program more than ever.

That and… I don’t think your school taught reading comprehension. And don’t know if I’ve stated this enough, but you seem to have severe problems in reading.

Loopzilla:
Yes, my writing is readable *and my feelings understandable !? Thank you!

Except, Africans did have civilizations. What about the Mwenemutapa empire in Zimbabwe? No? You haven’t heard of it? That’s not because African people didn’t have civilization, it’s because racist white people run the school board, run the class, and decide what’s okay for the white people of tomorrow to learn. It’s much easier to dismiss someone and their experience/struggles if you don’t know anything about them and where they came from. If you grow up thinking that people of color are heathen savages, obviously it’s much easier to forget they they are PEOPLE WITH RIGHTS AND FEELINGS, just like you.

As long as this suckage exists, I think Afro-centric schools are a great idea. There’s no reason for children to grow up thinking that they are the second banana to white people, just because white people always want to be the first banana. An optimal situation would be studying all cultures, with equal respect and time devoted to each culture studied. This is clearly not going to happen any time soon, since white people continue to deny that there’s a problem. So what’s wrong with an Afro-centric school, that teaches children to consider themselves on the same level as another race?