The first Monday of August is a Civic holiday in
Ontario, in honour of Lt.Gov John Graves Simcoe, who, in 1793, passed the
British Empire's first anti-slavery bill, 40 years before it was abolished in
the rest of the Empire.
One may celebrate however much one sees fit, or unfit,
but nevertheless there is a difference between emancipation and equality.
Black
people are more likely to be treated unjustly than members of other minority,
more likely to be suspended or expelled from school, to be carded or questioned
by police, to face unemployment rates higher than the national average, earn
less money than their fellow workers who are white for the same job and 20
times more likely than whites to be shot dead by police. Yet blacks still
demand equality with whites, as if whites have equality with each other.
What
they mean is equality under the law which is the law of the capitalist class
which exists to protect their property ownership and which, by its very nature,
pits worker against worker.
There is only one form of equality worth fighting
for - a society where all will stand equal in relation to the tools of production
and distribution of goods.
S.P.C. Members.
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