15. But what remains worrisome is genuine beachhead of support Ford has among working class POC, not just blacks, but many other groups.
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26. After Ford, do we dare go back into our sleepwalking state & pretend we're a city without racism or homophobia?
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@HeerJeet Lot of developed countries love to think they don't have racial/cultural divisions of U.S. It's good to get that kick in the ass.
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@HeerJeet Just reread Bharati Mukherjee`s 1981 *Saturday Night* essay on how Toronto is more racist than Montreal & Canada moreso than US. -
@StephenHenighan Yeah. That essay has been dropped down the cultural memory hole.
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@HeerJeet Toronto has always been like Brazil:multiracial rhetoric conceals harsher divisions than in places where differences are in open. -
@StephenHenighan Brazil without the cultural vibrancy. - Show replies
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