Singh’s Atwater Market encounter became about comforting the comfortable

What we see in the Atwater Market incident is a greater concern for white comfort and forgiveness than for Jagmeet Singh and candidates and Canadians like him.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh boards his campaign bus in Ottawa on Oct. 6. There is an undue expectation imposed on people of colour to show grace and forgiveness without being asked, and to be polite when faced with racism, big and small, write Erica Ifill and Amy Kishek. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AMY KISHEK, ERICA IFILL

October 9, 2019

OTTAWA—The tenor of this election has abruptly and sharply turned towards race, and with every incident, we choose to stick our heads in the sand or “move on.” The most recent one being a white man—who CBC’s The National referred to as “a concer...

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