Wes Hall is No. 16 on the 2021 Maclean’s Power List, a ranking of 50 influential Canadians.The adage “If you can see it, you can be it” is supposed to explain why underrepresented groups need to see faces like theirs in positions of influence so they know that they belong there, too. But, as Wes Hall explains it, broadening who sits at the top is just as much about retraining the rest of society to confront deeply ingrained anti-Black systemic racism.
Because the other side of that selective vision is this: Hall’s wife recently shopped in a posh local store and told the staff her sons would return that evening to pick up a heavy package. She is white, and their sons identify as light-skinned young Black men, and when they arrived at the store, Hall says, the staff and customers reacted with unmistakable alarm. “The system programs people to act that way.
wesleyjhall Where is the data surveys? Are you making this up? Or is this your opinion! We are as bad as the US. My ancestors were put in these internment camps Canada no one acknowledges!! Sad sick Canada
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