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Issue Tangentially: Identity and Hayden King

issue tangentially: Instead, as a white, relatively comfortable Canadian, I'd like to come at the issue tangentially in particular, regarding the question of identity itself, according to Rabble. A friend strongly rooted in her Jewish identity once challenged me, in a manner similar to the Indigenous where are you from gambit. I would be foolhardy indeed to attempt to recapitulate the eloquence of indigenous writers and scholars like Hayden King, and will not make any such attempt here. She was puzzled that I didn't seem to have a clearly marked identity of my own. I have dwelt on that question ever since. I was uncharacteristically speechless. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.