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#MeanwhileInCanada Black Canadians Are Fighting Ignorance and Intolerance

We too are angry. We too are hurting. We too are tired.

Dwaine Taylor
6 min readJun 2, 2020

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For a large part of the weekend #MeanwhileInCanada was the number one trending topic on Twitter for Canadians. The tweets were largely comparisons of news coverage between escalating protests in the United States, following the murder of George Floyd, and lackadaisical Canadian headlines. This juxtaposition would be tone-deaf on any day, this weekend it was particularly infuriating.

While some Canadians were tweeting inconceivably ignorant comparisons, others marched the streets of Toronto demanding justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet.

Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year old black woman, died after falling from her 24th-floor apartment during an altercation with Toronto Police last week. Police have been accused of pushing her over the balcony.

Regis Paquet/Facebook

The fact that these topics can simultaneously trend on Canadian’s social feeds and further that #MeanwhileInCanada can edge out the voices of thousands calling for police reform and an end to anti-Black racism…

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Dwaine Taylor
Dwaine Taylor

Written by Dwaine Taylor

Busy building communities. Founder @newpact.

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