Monday Apr. 28, 2014 – 11am
Posted Apr 28, 2014 02:45:31 PM.
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11:00- Is this free speech or hate speech? Is racism real? How would you feel getting this “flyer”?
Keith Leslie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for the Canadian Press
Ontario’s premier is lashing out at what she calls a “hateful flyer” being distributed in Brampton. Kathleen Wynne has issued a statement saying she will not tolerate what she calls the “hateful politics of division in Ontario.” Media reports say the flyers show a black and white picture of a group of Caucasians above separate photograph of a group of Sikhs with captions that read “from this…to this…” Underneath the two pictures is a caption “Is This What You Want?” Media reports quote some local residents as saying they’re quite upset by the flyer _ one person described it as racist and offensive.
11:30- If you were on the team, do you keep playing or send a bigger message, by not playing?
Magic Johnson is calling upon NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to “come down hard” on L-A Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who is alleged to have made racially charged comments and urged a girlfriend to not bring black people to his team’s games. Johnson was a subject of the comments Sterling allegedly made on an audio recording released by TMZ. The former Lakers guard says Sterling, “shouldn’t own a team anymore.”
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