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Hamilton Mosque

city: Should we ignore that Hamilton has the most police-reported hate crimes by census metropolitan area 2012 and that racism is a known and real problem in the city How about the hate crime arsons of Hamilton Hindu Samaj, and the Hamilton Mosque These kinds of issues helped the city recognize the need for the Anti-Racism Resource Centre forthcoming and the work of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, according to Hamilton Spectator. Are we also made to assume that the recent rise in racism across the city and internationally with respect to the increasing anti-immigration sentiment, misogyny etc., carried through the U.S. 2016 presidential election does not matter This is what the claim made by the head of the Hamilton Police Union wants you to ignore. This is a substantiated and documented issue that has been challenged in numerous ways in Canada and the U.S. by Indigenous groups, Black Lives Matter, community activists, policy-makers, government officials, academics, allies and others. They want you to ignore that Councillor Matthew Green, who is black, and who was carded and submitted a formal complaint, is publicly visible evidence of how racist carding is practised. There was indeed a spectacle made here, the spectacle of race, putting Matthew Green on display to be attacked and dehumanized by highlighting the idea that his experience is illegitimate and he is somehow clueless. The suggestion that this is somehow creating a public spectacle for political purposes means to attempt to oppose any recognition of an ongoing problem with Hamilton Police Service, including the lack of diversity on the Hamilton Police Services board that has also been challenged. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.