Sunday, April 07, 2013

I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison

I write this in reference to the published reference made to an recently incarcerated airline passenger in Baffin Correctional Centre: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/04/06/north-darren-cosby-interview.html The passenger was told: (quote:....I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison....Unquote) Here we have a foreign individual who apparently blacked out after some alcohol and caused a dangerous ruckus on the plane leading to his arrest. We have a non-Canadian convicted in the Canadian courts, but at some point along the way is told this rather systemic statement. The signification of the statement is that the prison systemic is built for native and inuit prisoners, it is dangerous, and be prepared to die, get injured by the non-white prisoners, What is not signified? That our prison systems are built for The First people of Canada, that all native and Inuit people are dangerous, criminals, that we as a people can not be trusted, that the institutional officers, workers within the judicial, policing, correction services are racists and hate non-white people. Does this one published statement define the literacy reality of Canadian society? Who told him this statement? I can only assume an white correction, judicial, policing individual, who has a racist view of the people he or she rules over and enjoys his or her sense of power and place in control these non-white prisoners. Assumptions, opinions? Perhaps, but the semiotics of this loaded statement demands a responses of this nature, please continue the argument and discussion, Miigweech, all my relations!