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There’s an interview with Drake floating around talking about he didnt know racism until he went state side.
First let’s get something straight. Black Canadians face an absurd amount of racism in Canada. From Police interactions, to housing to red lining to job opportunities and wage suppression.
All of it. An encounter with Police can end with us dead.
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The criticism of Drake is valid because he’s upbringing was pretty divorced from that. He grew up in one of Toronto’s whitest and richest neighbourhoods and was a Teenage actor on a pretty popular sitcom before blowing up as a Rapper at 23.
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But Drake’s experience is not the norm for Black people in Canada and to say we dont experience racism or we live with the nice white people who dont indulge in hate is wild.
Ontario still has sundown towns.
He grew up privileged to not encounter Anti Black racism until his 20s
Most of us learned and experienced that shyt from childhood.
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This is what im referencing
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