Beyond Green’s owner, Brad Gallant, wrote several articles which he posted to Academia throughout his activism. The first writings were to provide explanations longer than the 1000-word limit of op-eds he had the opportunity to post with the former Huffington Post Canada. Brad was informed that teachers were using his Huffington Post articles in their classes to teach about Indigenous racism and Academia articles provided an outlet to express his point of view on the culture of Indigenous racism in Canada.
The most viewed article was on my concept of the Extermination Factor. It looks at the culture of Indigenous racism in Canada. It describes how mascots are tied to the belief in Indigenous savagery and that they are not human. It compares numerically the effect of genocides acknowledged in the 21st century, and based on the long-term annual growth of the affected populations, the genocide of North American Indigenous may be the most persistent and brutal. Written in March 2018 the Mississauga Case in the Human Rights Tribunal was thrown out, it was quietly posted to Academia to demonstrate Brad’s views on the false nature of the process evident during the process. The Adjudicant had even bizarrely questioned the validity of a government-issued ID.
The first article I published on Academia looked at NFL Pay Disparity The article sought to examine if the cities with Indigenous mascot teams – Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City and Washington – paid their players differently according to race. KC, Washington, Cleveland and Atlanta NFL teams paid white players as high as 85% more down to 35% more in Atlanta. This is an anticipated result from research that shows tolerance to racism against one group increases the likelihood of other bias as presented in the HRTO hearing vs Mississauga. Of course, after the HRTO threw out the case vs Mississauga the Human Rights Commission attributed it as being driven by their initiative as the University of McGill never acknowledges the work of student activists who forced them to change their Redmen logo in the early 1990s.
On a positive note, the KC football team, which uses an Indigenous slur akin to calling a Black man “Boy” when used towards an Indigenous man, became very competitive when they overcame their bias and began using a black quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Bias is always limiting for those who are affected by it and for those who are governed by their narrow viewpoints.
The limited analysis also demonstrated a bias in position assignment amongst NFL players. Anyone who has talked to football coaches understands the underlying feelings between an Athletic position and a thinking man’s position.
I also posted the final papers I wrote as a PhD student in the University of Windsor’s Sociology: Social Justice department. I left after one term. A professor kept justifying the description of Indigenous Societies as Primitive and Savage. When I objected the students complained about me for being aggressive. To sit in a graduate class in 2022 where a professor spouted such hate and then to have his analyses supported by the university was absurd. How could I learn from such a detached and unwelcoming environment? Brad would have complained to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal but if you take the Systemic Injustice course you can understand why he thought it foolhardy to place my faith in such a hypocritical institution.
The Good Canadians concept is a play on Good Germans concept for those who did not resist German war crimes in any meaningful way. Like the Good Canadians at the CBC who say nothing when Hockey Night broadcasts Chicago Blackhawks games.