Francis Chartrand for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

Are you fed to hear people blame society for their problems?

If so, you plug your ears with cotton wool because in the coming days, Quebec will be submerged by a wave of unprecedented victimology.

There's crime in Montreal North?Because of the racism of Quebec society. There have been a riot? Because police officers.

Youths looted shops? Because of the consumer society, which leads them to acquire even more property.

The district of Montreal North has a bad reputation and some people dare not venture there? Because of the media.

Always an excuse, always a culprit.

BLACK WORLD

Yes, indeed, the unemployment rate is high in the black community (as was the case for a long time among French Canadians). But that does not mean that the horizon is completely blocked. Each day, I crossed black doctors, black lawyers, black artists, police black ...

Luke Mervil, Maka Kotto, Michaëlle Jean, Normand Brathwaite, Anthony Kavanagh, Gregory Charles, Bruny Surin, Mélanie Renaud, Michel Mpambara, Boucar Diouf, Didier Lucien, Joachim Alcine, Stanley Péan, Dany Laferrière, Boule Noire, Emile Ollivier, Philippe Fehmiu , Clan Biddle, journalist Azeb Wolde-Ghiorgis, the journalist Francois Bugingo, the judge Guylène Beaugé, Dr. Jean-Claude Fouron (one of the greatest luminaries in pediatrics in the world) ... How these people are made there? They are gifted? No: they have identified the sleeves and they worked.

They did not spend their time blaming everyone for their problems. One day, they are removed and they said: "I will not let the color of my skin define myself nor my brake."

A MODEL

Do you know Elrie C. Tucker? The Montreal native of Trinidad immigrated to Quebec in the early 1950. His mother raised her four children alone after their father had abandoned. She had an obsession: its children are educated. She worked hard and they were well supervised.

Result: Elrie C. Tucker became a respected gynecologist who earns his living very well and in 1991 he founded the Medical Association of Black people of Quebec, to help youth of his community.

Has he sat by saying "I'm Black, I never n'arriverai nothing? Has it complu in a position of victim? Has he joined a gang to be "respected"?

No. He worked.

BUNING HEADS

I am sure that young people who have put Montreal North fire and sword Sunday evening view themselves as victims of society, activists, protestors. They are nothing all that. They are criminals, criminals.

Burnt heads who take advantage of a tragedy even more to demolish their neighbourhood.

You want to denounce police harassment? Form an association, call a toune rap, shoot what's happening in your neighborhood and show your images to the media - in short, do something constructive instead destroy everything. And if you have children, take care.

As the saying goes: "Help God help you ..."

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# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 12:16 AM