Racism in the United States and Frances Henry

Frances Henry: A timely inclusion in this paradoxically racist list would have been the view of racism and anti-Blackness as exceptional events in Canada, given our media readiness to comment on the violent and systematic racism in the United States. This, despite reports of racial profiling and discrimination faced by our sizable population of people of African descent, whether from the Diaspora or by way of immigration racialization, notwithstanding , according to Rabble. "I wouldn't give any credibility to anything Wente writes," said Frances Henry, who has since retired, but continues to conduct research and Early in the new year, The Globe and Mail published an editorial listing the five conversations that Canada needs to have in 2015. It included a comment about needing to "lift up native Canadians, so the average aboriginal Canadian enjoys the same standard of living as the average Canadian." One memorable account of racism focused on Canadian university campuses. University of York professor Frances Henry published a report in 2006 on Queens University " culture of whiteness ," which was summarily dismissed in an opinion piece by The Globe and Mail Margaret Wente, who labelled the report, "rubbish," and accused it of having a methodology that "would earn any serious sociology student an 'F'." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.