We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigenous Canadians understand racism: they see it all the time, they live with it. — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share
White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share
We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share
The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there,… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share
