Who wasn a racist in politics?
My goodness. It wasn’t just Emily Murphy touting racism in our nation’s colourful (pardon the pun) past. White power was everywhere although, perhaps, worded so nicely, so suavely. You had to be in tune to catch the undertones of all the correct and upper crust language. The Orange Lodge was not only prevalent in the prairies and out west. My own mother was a member of one, a descendent of Scottish immigrants. I don’t even think she realized what a faux pas she was committing when she married my Catholic, French and First Nations father. I grew up with her drilling “The Maple Leaf Forever” into my head and didn’t understand until I grew up that all those years she was (albeit via ignorance) insulting me every time she made me sing it. God rest her soul and the racism she carried with it. She didn’t even know it was racism. It had been so ingrained into her culture. Do you want to find some more racists in politics? Check out WWII. Our freaky crystal ball reading Prime Minister Mackenzi
