Les Armstrong's racist FB post

[danbrotherston]

So, what did everybody think of his apology last night during the Regional Council meeting? Has anybody seen and BIPOC reaction to it and if it was seen as acceptable?

Also, this link https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/donati...go-to-dnc/ debunks the video that Armstrong posted.

I had to look it up because I didn’t know what happened. My first impression is that he’s in a very rural community, and has a very ‘white’ population in that township, so he likely doesn’t understand why BLM. It doesn’t make him racist though, it simply makes him tone deaf and ignorant.

Wilmot Township has 115 blacks out of 20,000+ people, or about 0.6%, while Waterloo Region itself has over 15,000+ black residents out of 527,000, or about 3%.

This might be true, but first, he is an elected official, he should be better.  Second, he has access to a wealth of information, he could educate himself, and he chose not too, and has doubled down after being called out.

Perhaps Wilmot is so white BECAUSE of people like Les...he's already affecting people's choice to move: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...ilmot.html, what less obvious decisions has he made as mayor which has limited the ability of more diverse groups from moving to Wilmot. This is why systemic racism is so incidious.