Letter from Nosa re: Racist Cartoon

I guess this is why I read other ‘mainstream’ publications that at least try a little harder to conceal the beast. There’s less likelihood of trash in those other publications. Not as in ‘poor white’ but in terms of the quality of your news and perspectives.

The same reason why an African-centred education is necessary, to protect and uplift the psyche of Black students who exist as a minority in a European-centred education system, is the very same reason why it is necessary for Black people to have their own forms of media. Otherwise, we’d be subjected to such trash on a constant basis with our only choice but to write letters in protest, get angry, cry foul, beg, ask, and plead. This is why Black people are saying that we need to take control of our children’s minds.

I’m thankful that Black people in Canada have come to the realization that the media nor the education system does not operate in its interests and sees them as ‘other’ to be ridiculed and sidelined. I also thank your paper for showing its true colors. Sometimes racists do that. They show their true colors. Often masked as humour. They show what their parents raised them on that eventually became out of fashion (publicly) yet they could not wash out of their brains. I’m sure you even have lots of Black people working at that paper. In fact, my cousin is one of them. Poor thing. Having to go to work to smile and be jovial with those oh so pleasant ‘non-racist’ white folks and endure their fake smiles. Behind it we know the beast that roams in their heads. Sometimes the beast slips out of their mouths and out of their pens and from their fingertips and onto their computer keyboards.

Thank you. It only helps to convert more of us to reality and to truth. It only helps more of us to see that there’s nothing for us in your media nor in your education system but to bide time until we can run our own and finance our own. It only makes it more evident and clear that surely sometimes the beast smiles, converses about the weather and engages in other forms of pleasant small talk and sometimes the beast lashes out uncontrollably in a jittery mess of feigned ‘jocularity’.

Nosa”

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