Black posters from Canada, sound off

[Turbulent]

only like 2 positive things I saw

your in montreal do you speak french? i think i heard somewhere they make it hard for non-french speakers like street signs everything is in french and jobs you need to know....is it hard for non-french speakers?

these are just stereotypes. It's kinda like someone saying, the south is nothing but rednecks, Cali is nothing but surfers, gangs and hollywood, etc. I'm sure there's more to it. I haven't traveled that much to be honest.

I speak mostly french actually. the street signs are in french (most times both in french and english). As far as getting a job, it's probably easier if you're bilingual but you could get by if you only speak english in montreal (Most people are bilingual). Some would argue that people who only speak english have better odds of finding a job than people who only speak french. I guess it depends on what type of job/industry, etc.

 

[Turbulent]

honestly, if you're black, the only cities i'd recommend to live in are Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, maybe Vancouver. that's about it.

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

Those French CACs are such paranoid fakkits. Despite 80% of Quebec being French speaking, they somehow think that the French language is under threat. The government has language cops whose sole purpose is to harass business owners for having English language signs. It's fukkin pathetic.

A few months ago, a ticket taker in the subway assaulted a woman for speaking to her in English.

Global Montreal | Montreal metro worker may face assault charge in language incident

these are just stereotypes. It's kinda like someone saying, the south is nothing but rednecks, Cali is nothing but surfers, gangs and hollywood, etc. I'm sure there's more to it. I haven't traveled that much to be honest.

I speak mostly french actually. the street signs are in french (most times both in french and english). As far as getting a job, it's probably easier if you're bilingual but you could get by if you only speak english in montreal (Most people are bilingual). Some would argue that people who only speak english have better odds of finding a job than people who only speak french. I guess it depends on what type of job/industry, etc.

contradictory statements

whats really going on up there?

 

[Jamal514]

I'm, surprised it's only been Montreal posters posting stories. I wanna hear what the Toronto folk gotta say.

 

[Jamal514]

contradictory statements

whats really going on up there?

I'm an English speaker of Barbadian descent, and Turbulent is French speaking (Haitian?) so our views on the language issue are always gonna be a little different.

 

[Turbulent]

contradictory statements

whats really going on up there?

what jamal said is all true but you can still get by if you just speak english (i know plenty of people who don't speak french and were born here). It's just that you,re a little more limited.

As an individual you can get by but as a business if you only operate in english, the government will fukk with you (depending on which political party is in power in quebec)

 

[AntiHero]

most of the ones on here are self-hating fakkits

I don't think most of the dudes on here are black.
I think they're just white suburban kids pretending to be black.

 

[69 others]

lemme just come out and ask cause the coli wants to know: how's the pawg black men relations up there? my fam is from the islands and when i visited some up there, a long time ago though, it seemed like becky brother relations were in full swing. i even heard white girls trying with the island slangs and accents.

 

[Jamal514]

lemme just come out and ask cause the coli wants to know: how's the pawg black men relations up there? my fam is from the islands and when i visited some up there, a long time ago though, it seemed like becky brother relations were in full swing. i even heard white girls trying with the island slangs and accents.

I've had my fair share of PAWGs. Getting a white girl is nothing special around here. I ate so well when I went to this college town 2 hours from Montreal called Sherbrooke.

On the flip side, you will see alot of black chicks though.

 

[Turbulent]

lemme just come out and ask cause the coli wants to know: how's the pawg black men relations up there? my fam is from the islands and when i visited some up there, a long time ago though, it seemed like becky brother relations were in full swing. i even heard white girls trying with the island slangs and accents.

depends. some white girls only fukk with us. some don't fukk with us at all. for some it's a phase too.

I know some non-haitian girls (white and other races as well) who use creole slangs and accents. Not sure but i'd imagine it's the same for white girls who hang with jamaicans, trinis, etc.

it's pretty much like you said. but here in montreal it's more specifically the french-canadian girls that fall under that stereotype. If it's an immigrant white girl (italian, greek, armenian, etc) they tend to stick to their own (there are always exceptions)

 

[Turbulent]

I've had my fair share of PAWGs. Getting a white girl is nothing special around here. I ate so well when I went to this college town 2 hours from Montreal called Sherbrooke.

On the flip side, you will see alot of black chicks though.

lol, sherbrooke chicks are easy cause some of them come from other regions, far from home and lonely.

L'UQUAM chicks are like hippies.

easiest chicks are CEGEP chicks cause they're legal and fresh outta highschool and for some it's their first taste of freedom...

Spoiler

 

[Yeahimcanadian]

I'm from Nova Scotia and its not to bad there

 

[Binary]

most of the ones on here are self-hating fakkits

 

[Constantine]

Outstanding. I'm still waiting for someone who got there from the Underground Railroad. In school here, our teachers make it seem like thousands of runaway slaves went north to Canada Are there ghettoes/projects in Canada? I'm not trying to imply that any of you reside in them.

 

[Jamal514]

Outstanding. I'm still waiting for someone who got there from the Underground Railroad. In school here, our teachers make it seem like thousands of runaway slaves went north to Canada Are there ghettoes/projects in Canada? I'm not trying to imply that any of you reside in them.

Some blacks in Nova Scotia are the descendents of African American slaves. My aunt is one of them.

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I'm not sure about other Canadian cities, but the ghettoes in Montreal tend to pretty mixed racially. Majority black areas are very rare.