Systemic Injustice examines how the continued presence of Indigenous mascots demonstrates a profound culture of Indigenous racism in Canada and the US. Mascots are not the primary problem, but a symptom of Canada’s gaslighting of Indigenous racism. It should make you question whether Canada is the country you think or hope, it is.
The course is divided into 12 segments to break down the irregularities Indigenous mascots represent and to try to understand why mainstream Indigenous racism is tolerated. The inconsistencies between Canada’s aspirations for its culture and the reality of its embedded Indigenous racism, the systemic bias is there for everyone to see but is not discussed like the emperor’s nudity. Canadians’ virtue signal at every opportunity, praising the country’s progress in Indigenous relations without loosening its grip over Indigenous peoples.
