By Straight |
B.C.’s human rights commissioner, Kasari Govender, calls systemic racism “a difficult and urgent problem” in this province.
That’s the impetus behind a new public-awareness campaign asking British Columbians to examine their own internal racism.
The B.C. Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has launched billboards with the message: “Am I racist” in an attempt to get people to examine inner biases.
Other signs ask questions like;
* If I don’t see skin colour, am I racist?
* If I want to forget our province’s history, am I racist?
It comes after hate crimes more than doubled during the pandemic in Vancouver compared to the previous year.
