Comments on: Far from black and white

By: Wale

Wale — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:36:26 +0000

I think that his point was that calling for race specific foster parents would not have been tolerated if the “ideal foster parents” for a white child were identified as a white couple. Either way the attack is unwarranted and pretty offensive. Oh well.

By: Karine

Karine — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:31:57 +0000

About Martineau: Dany Laferrière has once said that he thinks outside of his intellectual capacity. I agreed wholeheartedly and that piece proved it once again…

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:41:52 +0000

But Jan Wong’s piece did offend a lot of people, myself included.

By: DAVE ID

DAVE ID — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:00:34 +0000

I’m sure that if someone went through Martineau’s archives…we would find plenty of Canada and or anglo bashing.

By: Patrick Lagacé

Patrick Lagacé — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:07:07 +0000

Steve,
I think what Martineau is trying to say is that a lot of stuff is being said, in certain Anglo media, about Quebeckers that would never, ever fly, were it said about other “groups”. I’m pretty sure Rico was not alluding to the find-a-home-for-kids feature in the Gazette, I don’t think Rico reads the Gazette that closely. What he’s saying is, IMHO, replace “French-Qc” by “Blacks” (or any other ethnic/religious group), and some stuff in the English media being said would be deemed offensive and out of bounds.

Case in point : the Globe and Mail publishing the shitty Jan Wong column about Bill 101 being responsible for ethnic alienation in Quebec, and this ethnic alienation producing mass-murderers like Kimveer Gill, Valery Fabrikant and (son of Algerian father) Marc Lepine.

By: Edna

Edna — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:13:17 +0000

As a graduate of foster parent school, I gotta tell you it’s not racism in any form. Batshaw tries to place children in homes where they’ll be most comfortable, with people who are like them. They have enough going against them heading into the system. They will try to put white kids in white homes and Jewish kids in Jewish homes and Jamaican kids in Jamaican homes.

It is not about racism. It is about children.