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CONSERVATIVES,
B.C. LIBERALS MUST PAY THE PRICE FOR HISTORICAL BLUNDER OF EXCLUDING
INDO-CANADIANS FROM WINTER GAMES’ CEREMONIES!
By Rattan Mall
The credit for the highly successful
Winter Olympics goes to our athletes for their amazing performance and the well-behaved
members of the public whom they inspired to come out and celebrate as never
before in our history.
It does NOT go to VANOC CEO John Furlong
and his buddies or to the federal and provincial governments who royally
botched up – and who now are shamelessly trying to take credit that belongs
to the athletes and the public - and also the police and security forces who
won everyone’s respect.
Some dishonest journalists of mainstream
media, too, have been sucking up to VANOC bosses as though they have been
appointed defenders of these old, white boys.
VANOC not only insulted our
multiculturalism at the Opening Ceremony by brazenly excluding visible
minorities - Indo-Canadians, Chinese-Canadians and others - who make up more
than half the population of Vancouver Metro, but they also shamelessly added
insult to injury by excluding them AGAIN at the Closing Ceremony.
These senseless morons and their
mainstream media supporters just CANNOT imagine how DEEPLY they have hurt the
visible minorities!
Indo-Canadians cried out in anguish to me
in phonecalls and emails.
One of them so felicitously encapsulated
that anguish by pointing out how he and his kids so enthusiastically
participated in all the celebrations – only to feel that someone had
clobbered him over the head as he watched the Closing Ceremony and saw NO
Indo-Canadian representation. He didn’t know what to say to his kids.
Most Indo-Canadians had expected that
they and the Chinese-Canadians would be represented in some way at the
Closing Ceremony after having been so tellingly ignored at the Opening
Ceremony.
But NO – they just suffered another
devastating racist blow by the old, white men who run the show!
The fact is that Prime Minister Stephen
Harper or Premier Gordon Campbell could have easily ensured proper
representation of Indo-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians at the Closing
Ceremony.
In fact, these INSENSITIVE HYPOCRITES
should have gone out of their way to do so – but they didn’t!
And what the hell did Multiculturalism Minister
Jason Kenney, who’s been going out of his way to cozy up to visible
minorities, do?
Just the OPPOSITE!
He actually said it did not matter!
But that French did not get enough
prominence at the Opening Ceremony did become a BIG issue for these same Conservative
hypocrites.
You know why?
Because the Conservatives cannot come to
power without winning a substantial number of seats in Quebec – in fact, that
support matters more than that of visible minorities.
In other words, visible minorities are
stupid second-class citizens who can be taken for granted and easily manipulated
by politicians.
As for the B.C. Liberal Party, they
proved to be TOTALLY USELESS.
Only the BC NDP MLA Harry Bains and the federal Liberal MP Joyce Murray – and
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson - had the guts to
speak up about the exclusion of visible minorities.
And, of course, the biased mainstream
media largely IGNORED all this. I wonder what world they or their old, white
bosses live in?
No wonder they have little if any
credibility with visible minorities who prefer to rely on alternative media
for honest news and views.
VANOC and the dishonest mainstream media
in fact tried to even cover up the blunders by indulging in unabashed
self-congratulation – that is not the way unbiased, honest media behave.
As I wrote two weeks ago:
*VANOC’s “hypocrisy” has been exposed
even by celebrities such as David Letterman who screwed the hell out of VANOC
and the IOC for their blundering response to the tragic death of Georgian
luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.
*The chain-link fence keeping people far
away from the outdoor Olympic cauldron was another blunder of historical
proportions. What kind of a message was that sending to visitors from around
the world? And what about aesthetics?
*Buses for Olympic events breaking down
and drivers from outside Vancouver losing their way! What kind of
mismanagement is this?
*And then there were those dishonest
mainstream media reporters who tried to defend all these blunders and
actually attacked those honest journalists who had dared to report the truth!
The Closing Ceremony was PATHETIC.
Although dishonest mainstream media
portrayed it in glowing terms, the fact is that it was TACKY and LACKED
FINESSE.
The ridiculous number of music
performances at the end made one Japanese international student remark to me:
“This is not a Closing Ceremony! This is a rock show!”
Visible minorities must NOT forget these
insults!
They must hit back hard at these racist
scumbags in every legal way they can in the future.
WE WILL REMEMBER!
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