Prairie boy Harnarayan Singh becomes leading voice in hockey’s racial reckoning

Harnarayan Singh didn’t set out to write about Don Cherry. A few years ago, when publisher McClelland & Stewart contracted the Sportsnet commentator and host ofto write a memoir, they envisioned an uplifting tale: A small-town Alberta prairie boy who grows up in a traditional Sikh family to become an unlikely TV commentator.

While that conversation began in the hockey realm – and intensified over the winter as revelations of racism threaded through the sport spilled into the open – it merged this summer with full-throated calls for social justice roiling North American cities.

That common ground occasionally felt illusory. Shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Singh went with a Sikh friend to a Calgary Flames game, where some fans accosted them with cries of “Taliban!”Still, he pursued his dream, studying broadcasting at Mount Royal University in Calgary and hosting a hockey talk show calledon the student radio station.

OMNI does not provide ratings – Rogers says the sample size is too small for a legitimate number – but according to Courtney Szto, an assistant professor at Queen’s University’s whose research focuses on issues of inequality and racism in sport,pulled in about 209,000 viewers on average in 2017 – a good showing for a niche broadcast.

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Garbage story don’t destroy our great game with racial nonsense

Doesn't have to be racial. I'm sure he's a good dude and is great at what he does. But pointing out people's races is racist in of itself. There's just not a lot of other cultures that have historically skated on ice. Why do you frame it as if white people segregated the sport?

🙄

As if hockey has been keep races out of playing.

'Racial reckoning'

More 1990s Rwandan talk radio from G&M.

Hockey’s racial reckoning? 🙄

Racial reckoning? What the fuck are you taking about ....

Lol wat

Get bent

Reckoning ? I think you meant lecturing

“A small-town Alberta prairie boy” 😂

Reckoning

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