Visible Minorities: Racist Attitudes

Henry Yu Dept: Yu goes on to argue that the publication of such an article reflects the fact that the newsrooms and editorial staff of Maclean's as well as Englishlanguage dailies continue to be dominated by whites who do not understand what it is like to be Asian, native or black in Canada, according to Vancouver Sun. Racist attitudes and discrimination were widespread in Canada until the past few decades and the task of eliminating them is not yet complete. Canada has made major progress toward gaining acceptance for all of its citizens on the basis of their individual merits, and it is probably safe to say that there is no position in the country that a person of any skin colour or ethnic background cannot aspire to and according to Professor Henry Yu of UBC, Maclean's recent article Too Asian? Issues and Ideas, Nov. 27 was designed to incite racial profiling and reinforce the white supremacy that has existed in Canada for two centuries. He predicts that the magazine will have to apologize sooner rather than later, with economic pressure being brought to bear on its parent company, Rogers, if necessary. Apart from the questionable validity of such assertions, he goes a step further by suggesting that there is a glass ceiling that limits the promotion of Asians and visible minorities to positions of leadership. In his Feb. 1 opinion piece in The he lamented the fact that Canadian universities retain an overwhelmingly white leadership that is the legacy of a long history of apartheid and white supremacy. He was apparently unaware of the fact that visible minority immigrants are presidents of six of those universities. As reported in the news.
@t history of apartheid, questionable validity