Freddie P's Blog

April 20, 2007 @ 09:11

At least once a week I go some place in or around the Brampton area for some curried chicken or jerk pork.

It could be the Jerk Plate near my house, or it could be Portland Jerk near Torbram Road and Queen St. Hey, sometimes I'll be downtown and check out a new place.

Regardless of where I am, as part of my curry or jerk ritual I look for a newspaper called "Share -Canada's largest ethnic newspaper".

While I'm attacking my curry or jerk I like to read this newspaper because it amuses me to no end. I'm amused at how vicious it can be and the way it can constantly fling accusations at white people without being challenged.

It amuses me how, if the roles were reversed, and this was a mainstream newspaper writing the same things about black people, shit would hit the fan.

I'm also amused at how the "newspaper" fails to report stories of black on black crime in Toronto. Many times I've gone out of my way to find a copy of Share when there have been incidents in Toronto.

When Toronto police made a major gang bust in the Malvern area of Scarborough last year the story didn't seem to make the grade, but let a cop stop somebody in an expensive car and you'd think the world had come to an end.

I'm not saying every article in every edition is this way, far from it - but there's enough to keep me coming back.

My favourite writer is a woman named Pat Watson. It's amazing how she can take pretty well any issue and turn it into white against black.

In the current issue (April 19) Pat determines that rap music is actually the product of white business who encourage black kids to write the stuff. Not only that, but Pat says it's mostly white kids who listen to it.

Here's an excerpt from Pats column.

Most of the major recording labels are White owned and they know what interests white audiences, especially white male audiences purchasing most of this music. Look again into those cars and see who is bobbing their heads to this music, they don't look much like those who make the music do they?

How's that for a generalization?

Watson's point comes from the Don Imus controversy and it's her way of deflecting critics who've recognized the hypocrisy of what Imus said stacked up against the steady stream of crap that comes out of the hip hop and rap culture.

Sweet Pat won't give an inch. In her world, if there's a problem in the black community it can always been traced right back to dumpy white guys like me.

But that's OK, I keep it all in perspective. I get my curry or jerk, I grab my copy of Share, and when I'm done, it all goes in the garbage.