Comments on: Announcing Black Lives Matter New Brunswick: This province has a lot of catching up to do https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/ The tyrant's foe, the people's friend. Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:32:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: CHARLENE https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/#comment-78447 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:22:09 +0000 https://nsadvocate.org/?p=15658#comment-78447 Has the Premiere of New Brunswick acknowledged anything about Systemic Racism in New Brunswick?

]]> By: Eric https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/#comment-78401 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:01:21 +0000 https://nsadvocate.org/?p=15658#comment-78401 The black heritage society located in.saint john.has been.very active. Ralph tiger Thomas was very actively promoting black culture and heritage

]]> By: RobertDevet https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/#comment-78384 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:00:33 +0000 https://nsadvocate.org/?p=15658#comment-78384 In reply to Brandon Glazebrook.

https://www.facebook.com/Black-Lives-Matter-FrederictonNB-100550358369958/

]]> By: Brandon Glazebrook https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/#comment-78380 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:36:14 +0000 https://nsadvocate.org/?p=15658#comment-78380 Hi, how do I become involved with this new Black Lives Matter chapter? I have a number of connections to UNB and some government organizations here if that could be useful.

]]> By: Peter Little https://nsadvocate.org/2020/06/15/black-organizations-matter-and-new-brunswick-has-a-lot-of-catching-up-to-do/#comment-78358 Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:58:35 +0000 https://nsadvocate.org/?p=15658#comment-78358 Fantastic article Thandiwe. This strikes right at the heart of the matter. There is next to nothing in place to support Black artists and/or culture, save for the New Brunswick Black History Society, and it’s small group struggle along on a meager and ever diminishing annual provincial grant. Now is the time to lobby government and society at large for more resources, more recognition and more credit for those, like the six generations of family before you, who help build this province into what it is, despite the systemic racism they faced. In 1900 Abraham Walker became so frustrated with the lack of movement on equal rights that he began lobbying for an en-masse exodus of all North American Blacks to Africa. This was a Utopian dream to be certain, and fraught with dangers of it’s own. But it gives us a sense of just how bad things were at the time. Recent events in Edmundston and Miramichi have have demonstrated to us that we in New Brunswick are not that far removed from similar events south of the border. Keep up your good works.

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