I always thought there was something wrong with the song Brown Sugar, by the Rolling Stones. It’s blatantly racist. Not only racist, but misogynist. The song is about raping a black girl. In fact, it may also be pedophilia, since she’s just a “girl”. Not only raping her, but it [...]

What do you mean “best minority”? That’s the thought that went through my head when filling in The Mirror’s 19th Annual Best of Montreal. The deadline’s tomorrow if you were thinking of casting in your votes. You think we’ve come far in Montreal, in accepting and respecting diversity, but no, we have to [...]

As I heard that Toronto is opening up an “afrocentric” school, I felt rage going through my mind and soul. Canada, of all places, known to be a cultural mosaic of peoples of different backgrounds - where they actually get along - has decided to OK a school made specifically for African-Canadians (whatever the [...]