Ojo-Thompson never said: “Canada is more racist than the United States.”
Ojo-Thompson leans on her personal experience as a Black woman to say: “I felt more normalized as a Black woman there than I do here. We’re invisibilized from the cultural fabric of this nation. Canada has never reckoned with its anti-Black history,” and, “I lived in the South. And I’m saying this factually without any hiccup. The racism we experience is far worse here [in Canada] than there.”
Incredible
She [Ojo-Thompson] never called Bilkszto a “white supremacist and resistor.”
At a subsequent meeting the next week, Ojo-Thompson began by revisiting the concept of resistance that she mentioned even before the interaction with Bilkszto and how resistance upholds white supremacy. “I want to open by going back to the concept of resistance,” which “is going to be the most transformational, because we don’t talk enough about the many, many responses to the work, what they look like.”
Soon after she says, “One of the ways that white supremacy is upheld, protected, reproduced, upkept, defended is through resistance.”
Then she references the interaction with Bilkszto from the previous week, saying, “who would have thought my luck would show up so well last week that we got perfect evidence of a wonderful example of resistance that you all got to bear witness to. So we’re going to talk about it, because it doesn’t get better than this.”
Breathtaking.
You might think you hate journalists enough, but you really don't.
There is a vast difference between a Black woman comparing her personal experiences of racism in two countries and a blanket statement that one is worse than the other.
I guess she was using the royal "we".
Such bullshit. When she said "The racism we experience is far worse here than there.” she was referring to the experience of black people in general. Exactly what they're saying she is not doing.
Incredible
Breathtaking.
You might think you hate journalists enough, but you really don't.
''They didn't say this to him!''
Proceed to detail how they said that to him in some public shaming ritual.
~Journalists. You're a bad person for not Listening and Believing them.
You can take the dindu out da Souf, but you can't take da Souf out da dindu.
Her first name is hilarious 😂
👁-Thompson
Ojete-Thompson?
I guess she was using the royal "we".
Such bullshit. When she said "The racism we experience is far worse here than there.” she was referring to the experience of black people in general. Exactly what they're saying she is not doing.