What color are you?

Now the pants down.

Discussion on the back side of a door in the female washroom began. It started off when a (possibly) white young lady saying,

"I love Black men."

But her "affection" is soon rebuked by another (possibly) black woman who says,

“But black men don’t like you- you white trash!”

Then another little high school girl came in.

“I’m a 13 year old black young woman and am here on a class trip. I’m totally insulted by this and I’m thoroughly against this black/ white racist discussion. Now I know older is not necessarily smarter.”

Which is followed by another black voice,

" F*** those white who slaved us in the past. That can’t be forgiven. Never!”

Another rather mild opinion suggests,

“There’re a whole lot white people who are nice. You shouldn’t over-generalize this matter.”

And blah blah blah …

These are what I read as far as I remember.


Canada has long been proud of herself for embracing multiculturalism, compared to its neighbor's “melting pot” policy. Yup we can maintain cultural distinctiveness, promote mutual understanding between different ethnic groups and give ethnic group control over their own culture as far as legislation empowers people. The thing is, it has to come with attitudinal change and value transformation. Law can never interfere in personal choice. Racism is an attitude. A personal choice. Sadly, though, it is hidden in people’s subconsciousness, which is undercurrent. You don’t say it, but you think it! This is no less dangerous than any physical acts motivated by racism.

I was surprised the issue of racism extends to the door of female washroom and how matters can get so polarized between the “black” and “white.” Does race ever exist at all? Or is it just a social marker distinguished by our skin colors, eye colors, languages we speak, and traditions we adhere to, that we use to impose on one another? Why there has to be a clear-cut of black, white, Asian, or something else?

It pisses me off when I see people writing crap about their racist ideas here in Canada, where people claim to take pride in and have a love for their multiculturalism policy.