They told me to make a complaint in Saint John. They also added they will only talk to my lawyer.
Can you imagine if I didn’t have a lawyer?
The New Brunswick Legal Aid will not grant a lawyer to someone who are charge with obstruction.
How many poor New Brunswickers are in jail and can’t voice a complaint to the New Brunswick Police Commission?
Are the bureaucrats at the New Brunswick Police Commission racist against the poor?
Minister John Foran must investigate these people..
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Wikiedia defines racist as:
Racism is a belief system or doctrine which postulates a hierarchy among various "human races" or ethnic groups. It may be based on a conception assuming inherent biological differences between different ethnic groups, which would be purported to determine cultural or individual behaviour.
So you see they are not "racist" What they are is tired of having you bugging them all the time. What they are is non compassionate.
Compassionate is defined as:
Compassion is a sense of shared suffering, most often combined with a desire to alleviate or reduce such suffering; to show special kindness to those who suffer. Thus compassion is essentially empathy, though with a more active slant in that the compassionate person will seek to actually aid those they feel compassionate for.
So it would be better to start using non compassionate in your blogs rather than racist.
I was debating before using that word but other word can a person use once the Police single you out and lies to put you in jail.
I'm certain there's many black people who suffered the same faith in the pass and the Commission wouldn't listen to them.
So? What other word can I use beside racist?
I'm open on this one?
That depends. The next question would be, are 'most of the people' in jail of a specific race like acadian or native or another minority?
Perhaps not, but we don't know. We know that natives and immigrants are far more likely to be poor than resident canadians. That may not be true in NB since there are so few immigrants, but until we know the answer to that, it might well be racism.
Look at most race issues, whether its catholic and protestant in Ireland, or native and anglo-franco canadian, if you dig down you find the biggest issues are those of land, not race. Catholics in Ireland didn't care that Protestants didn't listen to the pope, what they cared about was that the crown gave protestant settlers all their land.
The same is true in Canada. Count up all the money that english and french canadian 'business owners' got from the land they took from natives over the last century, and if natives themselves had half of that they'd be among the richest canadians.
However, increasingly anthropologists are using race to define poor people. That's because poor people have as much of a culture as most religions. They eat the same foods, usually at the same time, they live in the same places, they often (maybe even usually) have mental and physical disabilities which means they 'think' about similar problems.
They may have different forms of worship, but often they have the same religious outlook based on their experiences.
So it may be contentious, but those living in poverty have more in common than many 'races'. Two people may have similar ancestors and skin colour, but one may be an accountant, while the other could be a drug addict. Chances are good their experiences are seldom similar, except in the movies or so occasionally it isn't statistically relevant.
So there is some justification for using 'race'. However, the big reason would be the message. When the public hears that the police are 'racist', they at least prick up their ears. If they hear somebody protesting they are 'not compassionate', then they won't care because its not a function of their job, to many people it might actually be 'good', because it sounds more like they are being 'objective'.
So I suspect 'racism' is the word Charles will use, and there is some justification for that. And Charles likes his hyperbole.
They're not racists. They just don't like self-aggrandizing, loud-mouth Acadian bigots.
Charles, why don't you use the word "prejudiced"? The poor is not a race. But prejudiced is, I think, the word you are looking for.
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