i hope he is ok - punched in the head
https://abc7ny.com/sucker-punch-in-head-upper-west-side-on-manhattan-attack/6712631/
shareRick is a Canadian. Canada never even had slavery and was in fact a haven for escaped slaves. And poor old Rick has to pay the price of BLM payback.
shareCanada might not have had slaves, but we still have our own reasons why BLM and Idle No More are going strong in Canada. There is no reason to bring politics into this.
shareExcept that Rick seems to be the latest victim in a long string this year of elderly white people sucker-punched by young African American men.
shareWhy does that have to be political? Where are all these assaults happening? Are they all in New York?
shareAcross the USA, and frequently in New York. May I ask you, if a rash of incidents of young white men punching elderly black men and women was happening, would you consider that apolitical?
shareProbably. Unless they were doing it wearing shirts affiliated with a group or a group was claiming responsibility then I wouldn't see a reason why it would be political.
shareSo unless people dress up in propaganda clothes, nothing they do has any political meaning? Their affiliation has to be visibly printed on their apparel?
shareThat's not exactly what I mean. If it's just random, how do you know it's not a gang thing? Or the same group of people doing it?
I also can't seem to find where random attacks like this are happening on a regular basis.
Generations of Canadians have grown up with this quaint idea that slavery somehow mysteriously stopped at the American border. Wrong. There were thousands of slaves in what became the nation of Canada between 1671 and 1834, the year slavery was abolished in the British Empire, not to mention AmerIndians had slaves/captives from other tribes before that, although they often just tortured and slew them. Want evidence? https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/population/slavery/#:~:text=The%20historian%20Marcel%20Trudel%20catalogued,the%20course%20of%20this%20period. and https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canada-s-slavery-secret-the-whitewashing-of-200-years-of-enslavement-1.4726313. Also, check out the historically-based "Black Robe" (1991) for what it was like in Canada before settlers from across the Atlantic came en masse and how brutal relations were between Algonquin and Iroquois https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101465/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0.
If the USA didn't become an official nation until 1867, like Canada, it could also boast that "it never had slavery."