Fog Blog Ridiculog:

IS THIS ROBERT E. LEE ISSUE COMING TO CANADA?? SIR JOHN A . MACDONALD , CANADA'S FIRST PRIME MINISTER.....BORN...JANUARY 11, 1815 AND DIED.....JUNE 6, 1891 IN OTTAWA AND LEADER OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA....NOW HE'S A RACIST!! KINGSTON, Ontario — It is impossible to escape the presence of Sir John A. Macdonald in Kingston, Ontario.His name is on the highway into town, a main boulevard through the city and buildings across the educational spectrum, from a new elementary school in a suburb to the law school of the prestigious Queen’s University.

Macdonald, whose visage adorns the Canadian $10 bill, was Canada’s first prime minister and the chief broker of the political deal that created the country 150 years ago.He was also a man who, even many of his admirers acknowledge, was crassly racist toward Canada’s indigenous population, and whose policies included a forced schooling program for more than 100,000 children that a national commission recently declared “cultural genocide. Now, my take is whether we're talking 'people of colour' here and in the U.S. or Indigenous peoples in both countries, the dilemma is ....what do you do with history. There was a lot of savagery back then, it was the era. Things have drastically improved for both people of colour and Indigenous peoples in the latter 20th and early 21st century! Back in the 19th century...things were bad for politicians and ordinary people. We look back and say, well we have to erase history when it comes to racism etc. We will be erasing a lot of history, which includes political figures in both Canada and the U.S. that built our 2 great countries. I think that we should acknowledge the cruelty of the past but should have an equal balance with how we acknowledge our history and who made our countries what they are today! Something should be done or we will find this issue back on a future Ridiculog!