Celebrate Women’s Day at Cap College CAPILANO College celebrates International Women’s Day this Thursday with free events, including lectures, guest speakers and entertainment. Activities include opening a number of classes to the public, starting at 8:30 am. and continuing until 9:36 p.m. Topics include: the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity and Gender, with Rita Isola; Women Composers: A Questicn of Access, with Joyce Gee; Chemistry of Cosmetics, with Penny Le Couteur; and Cross- Gender Communication, with Janet Kee. A complete schedule Of events will be available at the reception desk in the Birch building, at North Shore community centres, public libraries, and by ofins the Social Sciences department at 984-4953. One of the day’s ‘highlights will be the ninth annual Catherine Paterson Memorial Lecture. This year’s guest er will be Marcia Toms, who will speak on Wartime and Women: Partisans and Pacifists, Pilots and Poets, at 7:30 p.m. in the Cedar building, room 148. There will also be a ccial funchtime play by She Penniless Theatre Grou oup,_ This place from 12:30-1:30 p.m., also in the Cedar building, room 148 For more information on Women’s Day activities, call 984- 4953. For more informatien on the Mary Catherine Paterson Memorial Lecture, contact Shirley Freund at 986-1911, local 2369. a slurs made to" taunt police From page 21 tude rowards life. fait recently spoke to stu- dents at Ridgeway elementary about the Canadian experi- ence of black history. “I wouldn’t say I was an expert in it, but I have a per- sonal interest,” said Tait. Tait said many Canadians, including blacks, don’t know that blacks have lived in Canada for as long as any Europeans. The first blacks settled in what is now Nova Scotia in the 1860s. They * smuggled their way out of the United States to escape slav- ery and colonialism through the so-calied underground railway. Canada did have slav- ery for a short time, said Tait. Tait gives examples of Canadian black role mudels such as: @ Harry Jerome: born in Prince Albert, went to North Vancouver High and at one time was the holder of the 100-metre world running record; @ Donovan Bailey; @ Emery Barnes, former B.C. @ North Vancouver City Coun. John Braithwaite. “He (John Braithwaite) was the first person of color I met here. He welcomed me openly,” said Tait. Tait now chums around with Braithwaite’s son, Mark. That’s when the two young black men from North Vancouver became aware of what they call “subtle racism.” “You can just see people get nervous... I don’t think it’s as bad as the States,” said Braithwaite. Braithwaite, 24, was born and raised =in =North Vancouver. _ Braithwaite’s grandfather was from Bar- bados, his councillor father is from Toronto and his mother is of Irish and English descent. The men interviewed pre- ferred the usc of the word black as opposed to Afro- Canadian or mulatto. “Afro-Canadian is too much like the Americans. And I don’t identify with Affica,” said Tait. “Personally, I think that anyone that has a problem with using the word, ‘black,’ has a problem with their identity,” said Tait. Mark Braithwaite said that growing up black in North Vancouver hasn’t been bad. He said there are many peo- ple living in North Vancouver of different backgrounds. As Braithwaite got older, the majority of kids in his classes were not white. “I saw it growing up, being a black person or per- son of a different background nationality, you tend to pick up on the racism a little more. It is not overt. It is very sub- de,” said Braithwaite. How do they handle racial slurs? Said Ramsey, “My person- al feelings are that Tam proud of who I am and those names have never bothered me.” Constr. Shaun Ali, in his 30s, said that the racial mix in North Vancouver generaliy makes people more tolerant of other races compared to places without a lot of racial diversity. Ali was born in the Guiana region of South America and came to Vancouver from Toronto. Ali’s blood line includes Portuguese, Scot- tish, East Indian, West Indian and “traces of others.” “I think it’s easier to deal with people when you come from a mixed background... I’m pretty open minded,” said Ali “It doesn’t matter what racial background you are as long as you treat everybody as you would like to be treat- ed,” he said. The police officers said criminal suspects will say any- thing to “get your goat” including hurling black racial slurs which they let “bounce off their backs.” “If I was a far cop, they’d say, ‘Hey fatso’,” said Tait. Although there are many black constables now in the national police force, the group could not think of one “brother” who had made it beyond the rank of corporal in the RCMP who was serv- ing in B.C. And what about black stereo! ? “I think I disappointed several. basketball coaches because I don’t play basket- ball all that well. 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