Thread by @wickdchiq

This is why this is an awkward position for Omar Sachedina and an awkward way of beginning his tenure. And that’s how it was played by corporate. Corporate diversity decisions are still based on white supremacy. The fact they can use our identities as chess pieces is that

https://twitter.com/robert6cedric/status/1559320457597296641

The Liberals did the same when choosing gender over race for cabinet. Our identities are used as pieces on a chess board as appropriate for corporate branding exercises. It’s still white supremacy as mainly white men are making those decisions #cdnmedia

This is why #diversity is not #antiracism. It’s still a plantation, with white men at 🔝 and the rest of us scrambling for scraps from Massa’s table, putting us in opposition to each other on purpose. The power players lend power to one “faction” over another but can take it back

There were probably some “firsts” with his promotion. Probably first BIPOC person to lead the national news program at @ctvnews and his accomplishments have been overshadowed by cold and calculating corporate interests and misogyny. It’s shitty for both of them #LisaLaFlamme

Also this:

https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1559328205999333386

And also, the misogyny of the unceremonious dismissal of #LisaLaFlamme cannot be diminished. As I said corporate players chose race over gender and made room for their new direction of tokenism. White men making these decisions is the power structure many want ruptured.

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