MuchMusic’s Top Videos

TOP 20 music videos for the week ending Friday, Sept.
13.

1. Metallica: Enter Sandman
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Learning To Fly
3. Paula Abdul: Promise Of A New Day

4. Extrenie: Hole Hearted

5. Rod Stewart: The Motown Song

6. C'C Music Factory: Things That Make You...

7. Sarah McLachlan: The Path Of Thorns

8. Grapes of Wrath: | Am Here

9. Michael Bolton: Time Love & Tenderness

10. Dire Straits: Calling Elvis

11. Martika: Love... Thy Will Be Done

12. Bonnie Raitt: Something To Talk About

13. The KLF: 3 a.m. Eternal

14. Anthrax featuring Public Enemy: Bring The Noise
15. Natalie Cole: Unforgettable

16. Cathy Dennis: Too Many Walls

17. Huey Lewis & The News: It Hit Me Like A Ham-
mer

18. Bryan Adams: Can’t Stop This Thing We Started
19, Aaron Neville: Everybody Plays The Fool

20. Jesus Jones: Real Real Real

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RACISM HAPPENS here. It
happens today. To deny it is
to lie; to ignore it, is far
worse.

By Rod Solar

Contributing Writer

Discrimination on the basis of
color is a reality that transcends all
areas of our ‘multi-cultural’ socie-

No race has a monopoly on rac-
ism. No dimension of our school
system escapes its influence. No
socio-economic status group is
immune from its stench.

Contrary to conventional
wisdom, racism wreaks in Canada.
Even more surprising, the North
Shore is the site of intense pre-
judice.

The following are a few myths
that propef racism. These are
followed by actual quotes that |, or
other trusted sources, have expe-
rienced in the last 10 years.

Myths (what racists think):

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myth vs.

All Poles are stupid. All Chinese
are bad drivers. All Native Indians
are alcoholics. All Hispanics have
greasy hair.

Caucasians can’t jump (or box).
All Vietnamese are in youth gangs.
All ttalians have connections in
organized crime. Ail Hindus work
in convenience stores. All Sikhs
carry swords.

All Japanese are good with
money {and math). All Americans
are bigots. All Mexicans are lazy
bandits. All Irish are hot-headed.
All English are snobs.

All Colombians are drug smug-
glers. Russian ladies are masculine.
All Frenchmen are great lovers. All
Jews are cheap (and because of
this, rich).

Afro-Americans own basketball.
Caucasians own hockey.

Orientals are Yellow. Native In-
dians are Red. Afro-Americans are
Black. Caucasians are White. Col-
or matters.

Realities (what racists say and
do):

A black boy in Grade 6:
“Wouldn't you like to run faster;
jump higher; jump farther; throw
balls farther; fight harder; huh?
Wouldn't you really like to be
black?” A white boy in Grade 4:
“Well, yeah ... f guess so ...’”

An Asian man in UBC fourth
year: “My most vivid memory
from my childhood was hearing a
white guy say: ‘All Chinese names
sound like a spoon falling down
the stairs.’

A teary-eyed East Indian boy in
Grade 7 to his elementary school
principal: ‘There are some boys
throwing rocks and calling me
curry-breath, rug-rider, and turban
head...”

The North Van principal res-
ponds with the question: ‘Well,
are you indian?”

The boy says he is half Indian.

The principal says: ‘‘Well,
they’re not lying then, are they?”

A Caucasian student at UBC, in
a letter to the student newspaper:
“recent immigrants should

wake up (and realize) that
Canada ... has developed certain
laws and social traditions that are
Canadian. (immigrants) should
show respect for these laws and
traditions, ... if they wish to remain
Chinese, East Indian or whatever,

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reality

they should go home because they
obviously do not appreciate the
general openness and kindness of
seal Canadians...”

A North Vancouver high school
science teacher, in response to a
black student’s hurried exit in the
middle of class: ‘They sure are
weird sometimes, aren’t they?”’

A North Vancouver elementary
school gym teacher: “Do you
want to know why blacks are so
athletic? it’s because they’re
always running through the jungle,
swinging, and running up and
down trees.”

A North Vanceuver high school
socials teacher to a Hispanic stu-
dent who had forgotten © his
homework: “It’s always manana
tomorrow) for you people, isn’t
in’

A now-tetired North Shore high
school socials teacher explaining
why blacks in America live in
ghettos: “It’s obvious that black
people are lazy and aren’t as
capable or intelligent enough to
do something about their
predicament.”

A North Shore department store
imunager in reference to an East
indian employee who repeatedly
asked about her medical plan: “I
can’t stand those ‘pakies,’ those
peaple will some day drive me to
drink.””

A West Vancouver Canadian-
born professional for a foreign-
born Canadian professional:
“(The problem is) all these damn
foreigners taking all the jobs ...
and leaving none for real Cana-
dians.””

Malcolm Ross, a New Brunswick
teacher, writes a book claiming
Canada is home to a Jewish con-
spiracy, and denies the Holocaust
ever happened. .

Aryan resistance pamphlets are
distributed on the windshields of
parked cars at UBC. In the pam-
phlets, minorities are blamed for
rising crime, poverty, and Jack of
affordable housing.

James Keegstra, an Alberta
teacher, teaches his classes an an-
ti-Semitic view of history, rewar-
ding his students for praising Hitler
in their essays.

Not much difference between
myth and reality these days, is
there?

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