By Jasminee Sahoye St. Louis resident Camini Seeram, who lives about 15 minutes from where looting was taking place, told The Camera that Michael Brown was no saint and that most of the people causing the destruction were not residents of Ferguson. “If I was dreading the holidays before, now I actually have a reason […]
The Caribbean Camera refuses to simply resign itself to the idea that the race relations climate in the U.S. will not improve significantly in the next three or four generations. The hopelessness and the indifference, the militancyand the rage that have characterized large segments of that country’s Black community do not produce viable options by […]
By Gerald V. Paul “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” thousands of protesters chanted between the Superior Court building and the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto Tuesday night, as they held signs saying “Black Lives Matter.” At one point, organizers suggested all white or non-white people stand at the back, not speak to the […]
By Michael Lashley It is our duty to demand that everyone respect The Law. It is also our right to demand that the parties officially responsible for upholding The Law be held accountable for the manner in which they have protected and served the letter and the spirit of The Law. Some of us will […]
Lessons for Canada Given the gravity and the volatile nature of the issues involved, The Caribbean Camera finds it necessary to provide some extensive analysis to explain the basis for its forceful statement of principles and opinion which comes at the end of this Editorial. The violent death of unarmed Black eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in […]
By Gerald V. Paul “Race matters and there is still a lot of work to be done to truly reflect America’s or Canada’s vision of a just society,” the president of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations told The Camera in reacting to the police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Gary […]
