Are you black or native? If so what are your experiences like in Winnipeg?
How much racism do you exp on a daily/weekly basis?
I'm Black. Jamaican on my Dad's side and Vincentian (place near Barbados) on my Mom's side. There aren't many brehs up here, but a lot of the black people I've seen tend to have some West Indian connection to them. One guy I know is Trinidadian but was born here. And one girl I know is from St. Vincent. Everyone else that I've met are either Jamaican in some form, or came from Africa (usually Nigeria).
But with my experiences, it's usually nothing crazy. If anything, it's probably done when I leave a place or if I'm not within earshot of hearing it. Most of the time when I'm eating with my family at a place like Swiss Chalet, people always stare us down. Weirdest shyt in the world too, cause we're just sitting there eating like everybody else. Almost as if they never seen a black family doing well before. Like it's very low-key, you kinda have to be aware of your surroundings for it to happen, and I suppose the reason for this is due to the fact that Winnipeg doesn't have a huge black population like that.
But kids up here seem to be completely oblivious to racism, and for the most part, nobody really gives a fukk about the whole police brutality shyt going on down in America. They don't like talking about it. Me being black up here is a weird thing because you don't even really get hassled like that, that's mostly the Aboriginal kids who get fukked up by cops all the time. A friend of mine who's Aboriginal STAYS getting harassed by the cops... and they hate him, cause he knows his rights and never fails to let them know that.

One time, they arrested him because he "fit a description" and ended up having to let him go because they never read him his rights.

Another time, apparently a cop pulled him over and asked for his name and he just said his ID number. So the cop pulls up his profile, and it said "Caution: He knows his rights". Soon as he read it, he said the cop was like "Have a good day.

" and sped off. And this is apparently a daily basis for him. Me, I don't really get that unless I'm at the wrong place at the wrong time. So it's a give and take type of situation.
They are really

towards natives there. the cops are racist in their faces and beat them up. When I went there 2 years ago, I saw a native got that work from cops just because he was drunk. But nearby, there were some wandering cacs who were drunk too yet somehow the cops let these cacs slide
When it comes to black people in these kind of towns, its simple. Yes if they hate natives and other races, they probably dont like black folks. But few blacks live there so we are not in their minds and thoughts like these natives. Familiarity breeds contempt, they dont hate us as much because we dont live in mass numbers with them. Simple.
And any racist cac who hates muslims or natives, probably hates blacks too. You cant be racist against other races while having no hate whatsoever against black people. Never saw it and the exception was probably muslims/arabs, but you know hes feeling some kind of

towards us, but lowkey.
Its a damn automatic requirement to hate us black folks if you are a racist cac.
These economically struggling or stagnant, cold weather, white working class blue collar towns are racist as hell. A lot of them , they think black people, natives or any other non-white community is the source of their demise, when actually its the white elite in power who made sure their standard of living went down. I mean, who signed NAFTA, who made sure the formerly local manufactoring sector jobs were finally outsourced to cheap labor countries like china, india, etc...
Completely agree. A lot of people label the Natives here as drunks, when most of the people I see walking around like that are white kids.

Matter fact, it's white boys around the age of 17-22 who you mostly see around smoking weed in public and dressing out in the most thugged out clothes like it was 2006. But they're the ones who get left alone, the Native kids are the ones who stay getting harassed by the police. It's fukked up.
Back when I used to work for a call center which was focused on surveys, I had to do an interview where one of the questions asked if they felt that Canada did enough for the Aboriginal people and whether Canada committed cultural genocide or not. Most people said that we did do enough and that there weren't any genocides in Canada. Meanwhile, if I were to reach an Aboriginal individual on the phone and ask them the same question, they'd respond as if you asked them if the sky was blue, like the answer was so clear as day and was the equivalent of asking them is the sky blue.

And a lot of people here will say that it's the Aboriginals' fault for how their reserves are in the condition that they are, and that they're all lazy and that they need to pull themselves up. Meanwhile, the places have no running water and has a drug and alcohol problem. Which, apparently, things were working out just fine until the drugs and alcohol were introduced.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
