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Anti-white racism. This should be good.
May 29th, 2011 by maysie

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game that They are Losing.

So. A study came out recently saying that white folks in the US felt that anti-white discrimination was a huge problem and that anti-Black racism is hardly a problem at all anymore. While I understand that people do all sorts of studies on topics that I don’t give a shit about, my only question is was this a slow news day or something?

So white people minimize racism experienced by Black folks? Wow, stop the presses. And white folks still frame race issues in the US as Black/white? Sounds like some people don’t want to join the 21st century, which is well underway people, get with the program. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Ontario, I think I need to see other provinces
May 6th, 2011 by maysie

Dear Ontario,

I think I need to see other provinces.

Come on, you can’t possibly be surprised. This latest federal election is simply the final straw. So many ridings went conservative, some in my own city!  Toronto!! We’re in municipal-level counselling by the way. It’s not going well.

Ontario, you and I clearly want different things, and I have to say, I think your priorities are fucked up. And I don’t respect you anymore.

And you know what? Some of this is my fault too. I forgot that you were the big blue Bill Davis machine for so many years. But you know what? Next to your leader, Stephen Harper, (who’s from fucking Etobicoke, you fuckwad), Bill Davis looks like a raging commie. The Far Right is the new center? Not if I have anything to say about it.

I remember when the federal Progressive Conservatives went all kablooey. This time it’s the Liberals’ turn and you, Ontario, think you’re going to benefit from the Conservatives. You won’t, and you’re naive to think otherwise. Harper hates his home province. He actually hates most Canadians, if you look at who his policies benefit and who they fuck over, and not in a good way. He also despises his home city, and has done everything to pretend we don’t exist or to cause trouble for us, like hosting the G20 in downtown Toronto in the last week of June last year.

And the future for us, you and me, Maysie and Ontario at the provincial level? Are you kidding me? Tim Hudak?

Dude.

Let’s face it, we don’t have the same goals anymore, and I don’t respect your friends, your ideals and your politics. Your friends are thugs, bullies and not the kind of people I want to hang around with.

So. We’re through.

I’m liking Québec a lot these days. And I think I can finally tell you I’ve had a huge crush on BC for a long time.

It’s not me, it’s you.

With fond memories,

Maysie

Dear Québéc, you rock!
May 3rd, 2011 by maysie

Dear Québéc,

You’re my home province. I was born in Montreal a city I love. And you, as you’ve done a few times before in Canadian history, made history again last night.

60 of the NDP’s new seats came from you. 60!

I guess your break-up with the Bloc Québécois is now clear.

Between you and Ontario, who I’m not talking to right now, you’ve made most Liberal majorities in the past. And Conservative ones, lest we forget Mulroney. Until 1990, when you broke away from the past and became a viable national/federal party with a separatist agenda. The irony was never lost, either on Québéc or on the rest of Canada. That’s one of the reasons I love you actually, as an anglophone ex-Québécker.

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Canada votes 2011. Fucking hell fuckers.
May 3rd, 2011 by maysie

So.

The results are in.

CONSERVATIVE 167    NDP 102   LIBERAL 34   BLOC QUEBECOIS 4   GREEN 1

I have a few things to say.

While watching the results come in last night, occasionally shouting at, swearing at and weeping at the t.v., the fates, the heavens, I felt happy the the NDP will be the opposition, but a deeper despair, fear and dread at the rather huge and substantial majority that Canada has given the Paleo-Conservative Party of Canada.

Examining the regional breakdown, in the cool light of the morning after, however, I see that “Canada” did no such thing.

It’s Ontario’s fault.

So, this is dedicated to Ontario:

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Names I Will Never Be Called (and I’m okay with that)
May 1st, 2011 by maysie

This is a found poem I wrote last year, and just read at a poetry event today. The words/phrases are all taken from newspaper headlines and other online news sources. Enjoy.

A found poem by Maysie

  • Neutral third-party
  • Aging teen heart-throb
  • Liberal leadership hopeful
  • Reliable white house source
  • Newly appointed Conservative senator
  • Billionaire property tycoon
  • Olympic gold medalist
  • Disgraced media baron
  • World Bank president
  • Middle-aged reality show star
  • Former CIA operative
  • Notorious insider trader
  • Blonde American celebutante
  • Captain of industry
  • Convicted counterfeiter
  • Wrathful demagogue
  • Vice-regal consort
  • Multiple Emmy-award winner
  • First round draft pick
  • Famously knocked-up
  • Saved By the Bell alum
  • Neo-Conservative
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