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9/16/2019

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I'm grateful for my Canadian life as well as my Jamaican heritage

I have so much pride in both things

Whenever I discuss corrupt JA governments and racist Canadian governments is definitely a result of this colonial life that we are forced to share

For the most part, even with the increase in gun violence, I feel relatively safe on the streets, night or day in this country

Daycare, medical care, technology, a mostly respectful society and so much more makes Canada a beautiful home

A place I do feel grateful to reside

Loving many things about my two homes should not stop us from seeing the things that cause the unpleasantness of racism and gun crime and not saying anything just because things are otherwise great

I love many things in Canada

I am proud of many things Canadian

I speak from a recipient of daily racist overtones and undertones

Daily

It feels like an instinctive racist agenda, which many won't deny yet there is a vibe that I need to accept it... we all do

"It's just the way it is"

Nah

Not accepting shit

As an immigrant, observing my 43 years now, it seems like white Canada needs to murder Native humans

This is clear to me

It can only be stopped by white Canadians

The Native humans would love to stop it all but they have been thoroughly abused by white european defendants for decades and have probably run out of solutions for a peaceful existence that could be conveyed to the euro descendant

With control of the media, the "Native Canadian" are lazy, drunk, drug abusers.  They are Native yet they are not Canadian...

They are Original people

And they are a spiritual guide on this planet yet the euro Canadian as well as American still abuse them since 1492 going forward

The european decent people spent $92 million to create a report, admitting to themselves that they genocide Native humans this 2019

$92 million

This much money to tell me what we all already know

Gotta love these people

$92 million and not a single name of one of the perpetrators murdering these folks

Fifteen decades of abuse, $92 million and not one name?

The parade for Bianca that I spoke of me not being satisfied with how Donovan Bailey is a small conversation but one in thousands diminished by the society in which I reside

Two mornings ago, I was walking towards King Street, as a streetcar pulled off the stop and some random, old white dude gave me the finger... I of course returned the greeting.  Forty three years ago it would have incensed me, and when I repeated it to friends, we bust out laughing because it has been thus from then till now

My goal isn't about nit picking just for the hell of it but more to show clearly a systemic, constant and consistent racist like I and others are expected to accept.  If it pisses you off, get off my page

I don't have to love Canada less to speak the truths that I live

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Pum Pum Blocking

9/1/2019

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So I have heard from a few sistrins of mine about the intense stares that they receive from dudes

Scenario #1 is by total strangers

Scenario #2 is by idrins within the circle for several years going to several events together to leer at sistrins they have also known for years

Let us be clear, I am neither a saint nor trying to convert based on I n I beliefs yet if it gave brothers a pause to think, it should be worth a try

Maybe it is a place for discussion

Maybe we educate our sons and daughters to some concepts 

Part of why I write this is to protect my sistrin, my daughters and daughters of my friends from the ogling 

I have leered at a couple of ladies in my time, yet it has usually been with someone I am intimate with, who responds favorably.  If she responds with a cold shoulder or disinterest, I quickly choose another place to stare...  This one is not for me.  I don't keep staring when there is obviously no interest in I n I advances

What do we do?

It's been this way from ever

When I hear sistrins mention that they have anxiety thinking about going to events and last minute to decide against going is centuries old but I'm truly trying to take that in

Anxiety from being stared at by your bredrins 

As a man, I have no such thought or reason to think of being ogled as I don't feel threatened

I think that's it

If the advance is unwanted yet continuous, it tends to feel like a threat

The threat that accompanies the leer / ogle

I have ladies in I n I circle that I would definitely fancy a liaison with yet unwanted staring does not get one closer to the punny

It has the opposite effect actually

For some of the brothers who see what I'm seeing, you can aid your sistrins with "pum pum blocking"

What my sistrins point out is that the majority of the ogling usual stays on their fronts

If your sistrin gives you the eye like, "can you come and stand with me" eye, go over to her and stand directly in the line of sight of the ogler

He don't want to see no guy, especially a crusty one like me

It also let's your ogling idrin know seh you do not ascribe to the ogle mentality

It won't change a centuries long accepted habit yet I felt like saying something anyway
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The Music Gallery presents:
X AVANT XIV: FORWARD
Willi Williams and New Chance WORLD PREMIERE + Holy Hum

Doors: 7:30PM/Concert 8PM
$25 Regular
$20 Advance
$15 Students, Members, EARLYBIRD

The exciting debut of an intergenerational collaboration between one of Toronto’s most iconic reggae elders and a grassroots electronic adventurer. New Chance, aka Victoria Cheong and Willi Williams (writer of “Armagideon Time” as covered by the Clash) create a new sound for your system with a project that grows from the roots forward into the future. Jamaica’s culture has had a profound impact on Toronto over the past fifty years; this is, as the saying goes, “a new chapter of dub”. 
Holy Hum is the dark, atmospheric yet eclectic music of multidisciplinary artist Andrew Lee whose debut "All My Bodies", was released last year.

Accessibility:
918 Bathurst is not currently wheelchair accessible due stairs (two half flights to enter the performance space, and one flight to access the washrooms). We are working as quickly as possible with 918 Bathurst to make the building accessible for all.
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