State Memory: Police Discrimination and Canadian Landscape

state memory: Although there are certainly some differences in terms of broad historical contours, demographic patterns and patterns of migration, there are some really profound similarities, between Canada and the U.S., says Barrington Walker, a legal historian at Queen University, according to Globe and Mail. I do think that the history of anti-black racism that exists in Canada, that there is a kind of long, institutionalized state memory, the old idea that blacks do not belong as part of the Canadian landscape. So the emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign against police discrimination in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver is not some copycat echo of a far more violent U.S. crisis; it is a reflection of the lived experiences of many black Canadians, which are measurably different, on average, from those of white and other minority Canadians. Dr. These findings have been confirmed over and over. Walker research has found a consistent pattern in Canadian courts of sharply different treatment of black defendants in trials, judgment and sentencing, and in likelihood of running afoul of the law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.