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Bu! mort- importantly. the book has something to say abouf fling along with your neighbours or any cultun- and colour in uxiay's multi-elhnic communities "Work Region. The Help depided’ the terrible. painful and nxymnronic realities of segregated society. Re: AlHoca! rule am at Smujfuille fmmeu market. Aug. 4. Downtown needs more than farmers market When tfic town first announced the opening of its downtown Stouffville fannets market two years agoJ voiced my opinion. calling it ridicu- lous. During its three seasons. the market has never brought any business into the downtown com and it is not bringing any tourism into our town. Blacks couldn't use the 5mm: bath Painful racism isn’t found just in Deep South lETTERS TO THE EDITOR You ran mad letter!» mlumm and stories from The Sunflh- bum on yorkrrgion.mm Send gnome home I'm the gnome that was 510- lenv from Donna Ice "nail in east-end Stoufiviue. I know you thought I was exceptiogafly good looking, sil- ling on my bench smiling up at you all in white splendour cement. but. my mom thought 90. 100. ‘ She lovingly carried me all. the way from Salt Spn’ng Island. B.(I.. where she will likely never go again. ’ kc! does not do anything for me and others Get the dwmwm going and don‘t waste money on non~productive matters I‘d many like to go back home m be with mom and puppy. Pleas» mmm mo. As l'read each chapter 1 (rotildn't help shaking my head over the dichot- omy of these two “truths” of those days in the American Deep South; Very few whites could see how ironic and ridiculous it was that the very maids making their breakfasts and slicing fruit for delicious desserts were hankehed to a separate bathroom. sometimes in a back shed. because of their “germs”. rooms or water fountains as whites. for fear of “(1190:5031 yet the white families brought to Iifv mthc pages celebrated the great rocking skills of their per~ sonal maids VALERIE STARR m n w-rvrur TED CYBRUCH STY'XIFFVILLE Mamey Beck Sfi‘fil'li'ibune All in the past fight? Could never happened here? . ' If you need reminding that our comfortable communities have our own racism challenges to overmmc. him about the 'too~Asian” debate. the Georgina man convicted of aggravated assault in an incident sparked by a dis- pute with Asian-Canadian anglers. and anti-Semitic graffiti in Richmond Hill and'I‘homhill? PUBLISHER Ian Proud/"oat MafeWmonflmsmlhadapas~ donate. emotional dismssion that was sparkcdbyBlackffistoryMomhwitha lwladfriendwholivesinmchmondllill. She outlined blatant racism her daughter had faced in a York Region school and describede bigoted com- ments of a white man made to he: whilcatwork. Not all Whites in Wfklp were me- fist. Some were kind and fair. ueamlg theirmaidsasmembctsofmefam- fly. But the injustices of segregation seeped out bf every page. is: views. not just, against blacks. but sometimes that am anti-Jewish. antiâ€" ltalian. anti-Muslim. anti-('Ihinesc ‘l sometimes wâ€" not oflcn sâ€" receive letters lo the editor that express racâ€" lwishlcowdsaylwasslmockedbut lwasjust saddened. 6290 Man‘SL Stoum, 0N. LM 167 l would ask any reader who secretly or publicly says their neighbourhood is changng for the wnrse because ammund of people are moving in to consider the pivotal realization voiced by the central white character in flatHdp who develops a friendship with a black maid: “We are just two people. Not that much sepamtcs us. Not nearly as much as l'd thought " Mmiever culture nt race or cloth- ing custom ynu umcem. )ust mmeniber the people you fear low their kids as much as you do. cam about their panems and worry about paying taxes and neighbnuthnod security the same way ynu do. We am truly lucky to live- in the secure. welcoming. nunun‘ng climate that is York Region and the GTA. but in our own schools. workplaces and ne bourhoods. we must always; thcwalk and talk the talk. the list on. Some are blatant rams. othch far mom subtle. 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