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Samsung virtual assistant · 11-13-2019, 11:24 PM

11-13-2019, 07:02 PMJumpierPancakes Wrote:
11-13-2019, 07:00 PMnour Wrote: I’m gonna weigh in because this topic is really close to my heart and has put a genuine burden on me emotionally for a few days now.

I don’t know how many of y’all know this but I’m a Canadian immigrant. I was born in Jordan, my parents are from Iraq, and we immigrated here when I was a kid. My identity as an Iraqi person living in Canada is a big part of me, but I’ve always thought of myself just as Canadian as I am Iraqi. I love Canada, I’m fortunate to have grown up here and build a genuinely good life and plan for a future, safe from war that we had to flee.

Don Cherry’s comments are fucking bogus.

I’ve lived most of my life here in Canada and I’ve done more than my fair share to contribute to Canadian society as an individual as I can. I’ve shown respect for traditions like Remembrance Day that I’ve taken as part of my identity. I am a Canadian. The last thing I need or want to hear is some old, white guy talk to me like I’m freeloading off the country and enjoying all its delicacies, while contributing nothing because I didn’t but a poppy. Count the amount of people you see wearing poppies in November, you’ll sure as shit find just as many white families not wearing them as you’ll find immigrant families not wearing them. This isn’t an immigrant issue. His comments made me feel like my citizenship meant less than a bunch of dudes named Tanner and Cody because they were white and born here and I wasn’t. His comments made me feel like my value as a Canadian was less than thought of my counterparts raised in the same Kindergarten class as me because they were born into a citizenship.

Piece of shit deserved to get fired, he’s spouted rhetoric like this before and it’s about time SOMEONE put their foot down and said enough is enough. The last thing the western world needs is more anti-arab and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Dude had it coming, and I feel genuinely safer knowing he won’t be on national television spouting ideologies that put me and my family at risk of being the target of social and political blame in the country we’ve called home for over 20 years now.

Don Cherry is off the air, that’s a win. If you twist it any other way, you’re blind.

LIFE

Yas

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