Michelle’s Very Personal Blog

Just to be clear, I have learned that many ethnicities are very racist themselves.

Anyone who thinks white people are the only ones who are racist, doesn’t know much.

We moved into the Mississauga area a few years back & my son ended up going to a school where he was the minority.  I will admit that it took me almost a year to adjust how I felt about this because I was in shock that he was 1 of 2 white kids in his class & there were the same ratios in all of the other grade 5 classes & there were many, not just 1 or 2 grade 5s.

If the class had been made up of about 5-10 different ethnicities, then ok, that would have made me feel more comfortable, but they weren’t.

There were either blacks, Pakistinians, or East Indians & that’s it.

So my son made a few friends, only one was white of course & there constant racism on their part.

Not so much from his friends, but from his friend’s family; cousins, aunts, uncles, parents.

Once again, they would speak negatively about my son right in front of his face.

I would get very angry after I kept hearing about this over & over again.

We have since moved twice & he is now in a high school where once again, he’s the only white kid in his class. There are maybe 5% (if that) white kids in the entire school & there are almost 2,000 students in the school.

There are a lot of white teachers, & they make up the majority, but no white students.

I will say it, the Toronto area is slowly weeding out ALL the white or close to white looking people. At first I would joke about how now I know how it feels to be a black person, but black people were generally only the minority in small cities, not large ones like Toronto.

Once again, I have no problem at all with different nationalities, I do have a problem with me being the minority in a country that was once primarily white & when I say white, I mean from countries that are of mainly European origin.

And if you tell me not to live in these segregated areas, fine, you can pay for my rent or mortgage in a white area. I didn’t choose to live here because I wanted to, although I do like the area quite a bit & my son’s school is nice, big & new, I came here because it’s cheaper to live here.

Thanks

Michelle