httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5IDXVyhu0g&feature=related
We Canadian are fortunate enough to live in one of the most progressive nations on earth. But we too often forget our racist past and present. Not unlike America or South Africa for that matter, too many of the marginalized in this country suffer an unspeakable existance, a kind of apartheid, I dare say.
First Nations communities come to mind when we think of poverty-stricken minorities and segregation - So many on Canada’s reserves live in third world conditions. But the Video above speaks of a lesser known chapter in Canadian history - that of Africville, a slum where hundreds of Black Canadians called home until the city demolished it in the late 1960’s. This video is a chilling account of life in Africville.