Racism in Nova Scotia, past, present and future
Today.On the bright side, the Halifax Regional School Board voted unanimously last night to change the name of Cornwallis Junior High. Named after the city's founder, Mi'Kmaq activists have long sought to have the name changed and Cornwallis's participation in the colonization of the province publically recognized. Among other things, Cornwallis, who founded Halifax in 1749 (with colonists mostly culled from London's abject poor - most of whom died), placed a bounty on Mi'Kmaq scalps (see Ursula Johnson's phenomenal performance at last fall's Nocturne arts festival in Halifax). But more broadly Cornwallis is iconic of the sort of dispicable colonialist attitudes and actions that led to the decimation of Mi'Kmaq populations and cultures throughout the province over the next 250 years. For more information, see this page by author Daniel Paul , author of the excellent book We Were Not the Savages (3rd ed., Fernwood) .
On the dark side, the RCMP are now investigating a string of organized racist incidents in Shelburne and at the high-school there. While the police investigator is quick to assure readers that "we are dealing with young people," Shelburne has a old and sordid history of racist violence. Many will be familiar with the town (once a thriving port) from Lawrence Hill's acclaimed historical novel The Book of Negroes as a site where many loyalists, both black and white, were evacuated in the waning days of the American War of Independence. Hill outlines the horrific conditions endured by the Black Loyalists in Shelburne and Birchtown (accross the river from Shelburne, on poorer soil) but a visit to the Birchtown Black Loyalist Heritage Centre revealts the truly horrific conditions of life as the Black population struggled to make a life amidst material privation and intense racism and racial violence. Indeed, a year after the landing of the Black Loyalists, British soldiers led the townspeople of Shelburne in a notorious race riot . Historic legacies have not been addressed. In 2006, the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre was burned down by arson (see also this ). This compunds an ongoing legacy of anti-Black racism in the province .
Nova Scotia is a racist province . We need to admit this fact and begin to work through its implications and consequences. Unfortunately, the province and its leaders are in serious denial, and even bringing racism up produces howls of protest from the majority of the white population. While the renaming of Cornwallis Junior High is an excellent step forward, it is only a very small part of the cultural transformation that needs to occur. Indeed, the renaming of the school invites those who would downplay the province's racist past and present to believe that they have "accomodated" or "tolerated" the "oversenstive" demands of "special interest groups" through tokenistic change.
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Indeed, the renaming of the school invites those who would downplay the province's racist past and present to believe that they have "accomodated" or "tolerated" the "oversenstive" demands of "special interest groups" through tokenistic change.
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I'll finish up the project this weekend, tuck the photographs away and start thinking about the next trip. That will be late September. Where? I'm not sure. Solo or with Bruce? Not sure about that either, we need to compare schedules. All I know is that I hope to be on the water somewhere for a week in late summer/early fall when the cool dry air starts to move in from the north. I've started buying food for the trip already, tossing a four pack of tropical fruit cups into the grocery cart the other day. I'll worry about the other details later. My current plans are for day sailing. The forecast is good for tomorrow and I should be out on the Elizabeth River before 9 a.m. The Bayou Bugaloo, Norfolk's waterfront Cajun festival, is going on this weekend. I should be able to hear lots of good zydeco music sailing along the river, maybe even smell the crawfish boiling and corn roasting at the food stands. While I'm daysailing this weekend my friend Dawn is out on a coastal adventure. She is kayaking from Swansboro to Cape Lookout, making the trip up the coast "outside" on the ocean. That's Dawn above on the right. She says she is kayaking, but it kind of looks like sailing to me. With wind out of the south or southwest she should have a great ride along the Bogue and Shackleford Banks.
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