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canadians aint shit for gassing themselves up over "not being as bad as the states" like fuck yall canadian police are just as corrupt, our prison industrial system is just as discriminatory and we are not exempt from literal systemic racism are you stupid?
black ppl in the canadian federal prison system
- makeup 9% of prisoners but only 2% of cdn population
- less likely to be offered bail/be acquitted
- incarceration increased by over 70% since 05
- 3.2x more likely to be carded in toronto
- victim of 18% of force incidents by COs
- makeup 9% of prisoners but only 2% of cdn population
- less likely to be offered bail/be acquitted
- incarceration increased by over 70% since 05
- 3.2x more likely to be carded in toronto
- victim of 18% of force incidents by COs
(sources) http://www.intersectionalanalyst.com/intersectional-analyst/2017/7/20/everything-you-were-never-taught-about-canadas-prison-systems
https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in-depth/2019/canada-s-prisons-are-failing
https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in-depth/2019/canada-s-prisons-are-failing
(it is also worth noting the way that the Canadian federal prison system massively fucks over Indigenous people with them making up over 30% of federal prison population but only making up 4.3% of the country)
on the subject of police brutality (aka murder) this happened literally today!! https://twitter.com/fairyvivis/status/1265819211538071553?s=20
also fuck mountees https://www.pivotlegal.org/17_years_of_police_violence_in_canada
idc if white people are k*lled the most look how disproportionate this shit is
our fuckass prime minister declaring this decade the "International Decade for People of African Decent", then saying he had an "action plan" to stop police brutality and didn't do shit https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2018/doing-justice-by-black-canadians/
since i had no plan for this thread im just gonna end it with this article about the all the positive change that the #BlackLivesMatter 
sit-in at 2016 Toronto Pride prompted within intersectional inclusion in the LGBTQ+ community https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/black-lives-matter-declare-that-they-have-helped-create-a-more-inclusive-toronto-pride-parade-630727403.html
sit-in at 2016 Toronto Pride prompted within intersectional inclusion in the LGBTQ+ community https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/black-lives-matter-declare-that-they-have-helped-create-a-more-inclusive-toronto-pride-parade-630727403.html
