Nastyzed

(National Post, January 18, 2006)

$ 1 8, 0 0 0 T O YO U T H C E N T R E Quebec convenience store giant settles complaint over racist candy wrapper CanWest News Service

As a Quebec-born black woman, Laurraine Leblanc says she has first-hand knowledge of subtle racism. But the final straw for Ms. Leblanc, pictured, was a caricature of a scowling black man on a package of Couche-Tard candy. Last summer, she filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission. She contends the image reinforced stereotypes of black men as aggressive. Yesterday, as part of a mediated settlement, the convenience store giant donated $18,000 to Youth in Motion, a teen drop-in centre. Ms. Leblanc acknowledged some people may consider the case a useless fight. “But it’s important in Quebec that we recognize that there is a subtle racism … and that we have to do something.”

I thought I had seen everything when it come to silly "human rights" cases, but this one takes the cake, er sorry...the candy bar. Astonishingly, a wrapper from a candy bar that is worth maybe $1 actually generated $18.000 as part of a settlement with a convenience store that was selling it. Where is the "human rights" madness going to stop? (National Post, January 18, 2006)

Zapa

there is subtle racism indeed

like those white kids getting shot in the head randomly riding a bus arround Finch and Kingston .

we should be worried about theese subtleties