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First let it be known that minorities will not call out a racist unless it is believed to be true. Second

know there are many layers to racism. Bigotry is not as simple as someone shouting out a racist epithet

to a person or in general as a comment. Racism is much more then just name calling.

There are mannerisms, acts, gestures and attitudes etc that go along with racism! Racism and hatred are

synonymous. nd one eeds the other in its ugliness!

" was going to ask you #r $ickey i you have ever lived the black e%perience in &orth merica. 'pon

re(reading your attempt to water down the act that more and more people eel Therrien is conducting

his coaching with )* Subban as a racist and they are calling him on it.

+ou answered my uestion based on the act you look at racism on a limited narrow(minded view point

with very little knowledge and-or e%perience on the subject o what is racism rom a black-minorityperspective.

&ote " say both black and minority because upon reading history there are similar struggles, i not the

same struggles in some dimensions when it comes to minorities in &orth merica between anada andthe 'nited States/ such as the Black and &ative e%perience are e%tremely similar.

"n the 'S , mericans are going to lay it on the line and let everyone know they are racists. 0hereasanadians like to walk the line o being 1 polite racists2.

0hen it comes down to it there is no such thing as a polite racist. "t just a term to sugar coat racists thatare anadian bigots!

That said there is nothing 3*, nice or good about racists. ll a person has to do is understand the

history associated with Racism, the pain and the suering that went with being put under racism orcenturies.

#oving along

Racism is not just the obvious #r. $ickey where one calls a person a racist name or makes bigoted

comments that would lead others to suspect that one is racist.

Racism has many layers and actions to the connotation o the oensiveness o the ugliness o racism.

Resulting in brutish, tyrannical and even murderous histories bestowed on minorities in &orth mericaincluding anada! anada did have slaves at one time #r $ickey. nd were actually one o the irst to

bring back black rican slaves. 3 course this is just another hidden era or anada to deny.

There were both Black and &ative Slaves in anada. 3nly anadian hierarchy once more sugar coatedtheir Slave trade by using the terms 1 Servant as oppose to what it was Slavery! "t is alse that the irst

slaves were brought into the #aritime provinces. "n act historical records are evident slavery was

established in 4uebec, through a royal mandate issued by 5ouis 6"7 in 89:;. $owever that is oranother conversation on another day!

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upper management at all times and yet Therrien and others on this coaching sta are talking down to

him. They are talking to )* Subban as so many minorities can tell you with e%pertise that it is clear it

is racism.

>ven talking down to a minority comes in layers. 3ne is talking to a minority as i they are a child and

can?t think or themselves. nother is talking to a minority as i they are uneducated and can?t speak or

themselves. nother is talking down to a minority while e%erting superior or supremacists attitudes /allthat is let is or the minority to respond as ollows +es Suh #assah!

"n Therrien?s case he talks down to Subban with an attitude o ineuality. s well as he talks down toSubban to reduce him down, demorali@e him and humiliate him. "n some ways he baits Subban to

respond in a negative way or should " say how Therrien and Bergeron e%pects a black young male to

respond , to give them something to say or leverage on justiication or their behavior towards )*.

&ot to mention when other team members witness how the coach, some o his sta and upper

management speaks to Subban some o them will eventually think it is 3* i they also conduct

themselves in that way toward shim.

There is a dierence between coaching, being a tough coach like Bowman, correcting a behavior in a

player and disrespecting them with a racist attitude the way " and others see how Therrien speaks to)* Subban.

"t is indeed racism in my view, he is talking to )* not as a coach but with the attitude o superiorineuality, not authority as his coach but as the i )* is beneath him and-or beneath the color o

Therrien?s skin.

The most interesting part o all o this is, so many aucasian people have elt that #ichel Therrien isacting as a racist in attitude towards )*. aucasian people are starting to understand what constitutes

racism and the many layers o racism as well as the deep pain it inlicts on minorities and how that pain

has eected minorities through the course o history to the present! nd with that understanding comesunity among people globally.

The bottom line we are living in a new world that does not ask but demands that all peoples are treatedeually, airly, as human beings with respect and dignity.

#ore and more conversations are taking place about all human rights violations among all walks o lieacross the globe and it is the turning o the tide so to speak with the result that change has come to this

world and again people globally are uniied in that stance! Racism will not be given a pass in any nook

or cranny o the world including sports!

$istory will always serve to teach us how to proceed in long standing human rights violations and there

are many!

$ave a nice day!