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.@YRDSB trustee-elect elizabeth terrell-tracey is refusing to step down after making racist comments about her guyanese opponent lena singh. terrell-tracy warned voters that "we need a trustee born in canada" and "crime is prevalent across guyana." yorkregion.com/news-story/892…
terrell-tracey initially lied and said someone hacked her account. then she defended the comments. terrell-tracey then announced her resignation, but changed her mind the next day. sound familiar? nancy elgie made a similar play only last year at @YRDSB
thestar.com/opinion/commen…
.@YRDSB board chair corrie mcbain is saying the board recognizes terrell-tracey's racism but has no power to remove her

but the public does

public mobilization forced out nancy elgie and former board director j philip parappally. it can happen again thestar.com/yourtoronto/ed…
to all @YRDSB students, parents, teachers, and all concerned people in york region: you don't have to be led by racists. let's mobilize and fight back—elizabeth terrell-tracey must resign, for real this time
.@YRDSBDirector I haven't seen any public comment from you regarding elizabeth terrell-tracey's racism, and what it means that she is now a trustee-elect. we need to hear from you
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It's unacceptable that kristyn wong-tam has faced death threats and online harassment. at the same time, this response really paints the discrimination so many torontonians have experienced for decades as something brand new, which it is not. nowtoronto.com/news/toronto-p…
we can't seriously talk about the "trumping" of toronto politics" as something recent. rob ford was elected mayor of this city in 2010. white supremacists have proudly been running in our municipal elections for decades. we have to stop describing this as some foreign contagion
in this piece KWT describes faith goldy as "an admirer of white supremacists who was running for mayor." umm, what? goldy is a white supremacist. why downplay her hatred? the piece gives us examples of U.S. racism, while downplaying the racists right here. this is not ok
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on this date two years ago, @torontopolice officer michael theriault and his brother christian attacked dafonte miller, then 19 years old, with a metal pipe. police in toronto and durham conspired to cover up the crime, and charged dafonte with assault
the theriault brothers, who were sitting in their father’s garage in whitby, ontario, chased dafonte and his friends, who were walking at night minding their business. michael theriault was not on duty. the beating led to dafonte being hospitalized—he ultimately lost his left eye
.@DRPS responded and found dafonte, who is black, bleeding and badly injured—the theriault brothers, who are white, were essentially unharmed. durham police charged dafonte with assault. the theriault brothers were not arrested, charged, or tested for drugs or alcohol
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I hate when this happens
seriously though, stop acting surprised at the politicking of the toronto police. if you are genuinely shocked, keep that to yourself. every day we tell you, and every day you are surprised anew. I wanna see the same energy in confronting the obvious politicization of our police
here's a 53 division faceboo posts questioning the minimum wage increase. note that this is your police SERVICE, not the police association that gets paid to lobby for them. this is police using your tax dollars to keep people poor
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So this is Rod Liddle in the Spectator (apparently the *leading* magazine of the UK right), writing about how it's SO difficult to avoid being racist.

Let's talk about Rod Liddle's own history, since its not that well known.
In 2010, Rod Liddle blamed black people for "the overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London"

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@LaurieLleclair @kylegriffin1 @KorbachDebra Great question. Never happened. Yes it would be President Pelosi , as long as the new wave of house members vote to keep her or they vote in someone new and more progressive. In that case, whoever was voted the new speaker would be in line. Then 1/
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