shitty old racist removed from money

civil rights hero replaces him.


New $10 bill featuring civil rights activist Viola Desmond unveiled

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Desmond refused to give up seat at N.S. movie theatre in 1946, years before Rosa Parks's act of defiance




Wanda Robson, right, sister of Viola Desmond, admires a $10 banknote while standing alongside Finance Minister Bill Morneau. The new bill featuring the civil rights icon's image was unveiled in Halifax on Thursday.(Darren Calabrese/Canadian Press)

Viola Desmond, a woman who stood up for the rights of black people in Nova Scotia and went to jail for it, was honoured Thursday as a new $10 bill featuring her image was unveiled.

The vertical banknote was unveiled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz during a ceremony at the Halifax Central Library.

But it was Desmond's sister, Wanda Robson, who was given the honour of formally revealing the design of Canada's new $10 bill, pulling a black cloth off a blown-up image of the banknote before being handed a wallet-sized version.

"Is this mine?" she asked Morneau, who then offered to hold it for her, prompting the 91-year-old to joke: "You're not getting it."

"I say thank you, thank you, thank you," said Robson. "Our family will go down in history — in history, imagine that."

After the unveiling, Morneau took the podium.

"I want to start by saying that you need to know that this note is not yet in circulation until the end of the year, but Wanda is keeping hers," Morneau said, smiling. "It tells you about the balance of power in this country."

The bill also features an image of Winnipeg's Canadian Museum of Human Rights, as well as part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It should be in circulation by late 2018.

Desmond played a seminal role in Canada's civil rights movement when, on Nov. 8, 1946, she went to see a movie at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., while her car was getting fixed.

Desmond, 32, was dragged out of the theatre by police and jailed for defiantly sitting in the "whites only" section of the film house. At the time, black people could only sit in the balcony.

The civil rights activist was convicted of defrauding the province of a one-penny tax — the difference in tax between a downstairs and upstairs ticket — even though Desmond had asked to pay the difference.

She was released after paying a $20 fine and $6 in court costs. She appealed her conviction but lost.

Desmond is often described as Canada's Rosa Parks, even though Desmond's act of defiance happened nine years before Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus.

Desmond's trailblazing efforts received little attention until recent years, but her legacy is being increasingly recognized. Her name now graces a Halifax Transit harbour ferry, a Canada Post stamp, and there are plans for streets named in her honour in Montreal and Halifax and a park in Toronto.

She is the first black person — and the first non-royal woman — to appear on a regularly circulating Canadian bank note. (The Famous 5 and Thérèse Casgrain appeared on the $50 bill between 2004 and 2012, and Agnes MacPhail, Canada's first female member of Parliament, is one of four people currently featured on a commemorative $10 bill created for Canada 150.)

"It's a long-awaited sense of belonging for the African-Canadian community," said Russell Grosse, executive director of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia.

"The launch of the bill sends people of African descent the message that Canada is finally accepting us. We belong."

According to the Bank of Canada, Desmond's court case was the first known legal challenge against racial segregation brought forward by a black woman in Canada.


Segregation was legally ended in Nova Scotia in 1954, in part because of the publicity generated by Desmond's case.

"Viola Desmond carried out a singular act of courage," said Isaac Saney, a senior instructor of black studies at Dalhousie University. "There was no movement behind her. She was ahead of the times."

It would be 63 years after her conviction before Nova Scotia issued Desmond, who died in 1965, a posthumous apology and pardon.

Robson said the artist did a "terrific" job of portraying her sister's likeness, but added the picture could not do justice to the strength Desmond carried within her.

"She was honest until it hurt," Robson said. "That's who she was. That's how she got where she was, by her persistence."

On behalf of Doctor Who, I'd like to express my apologies that the recent civil rights episode only focused on Rosa Parks, but whilst the public will accept Daleks and farting Slitheen, the existence of Canada is still too much for many to believe.

Possibly in a Torchwood ep.

Virtue-signaling at it's finest.

Boring trolling at its finest.

White Canadians patting themselves on the back for being "woke."

It may be the best Flashy's got, but it's hardly anyone's "finest."

Meanwhile, getting Andrew Jackson yanked off the $20 is as hard as ratifying a fucking amendment.

To be fair, Jackson probably wouldn’t be too keen on the Federal Reserve and our banking system and probably would hate being on the $20.

Virtue signaling is a fictional concept invented in the warped minds of those so incapable of empathy that they truly believe that no one does anything decent or good without some ulterior motive. They’re unable to even wrap their heads around why anyone would do something for others without any personal gain. It’s a major red flag for an extremely stupid asshole and in this case, exhibit 17,523 in the case of Just How Fucking Dumb is Flashlight.

If you note the time, Flashlight rated my post Dumb a few seconds after it was posted. He just uses it on any reply, almost as a reflex. He doesn’t even try, he’s just here to post shit and accuse others of his own homoerotic fantasies because he thinks being gay is some sort of insult.

What did he mean "the balance of power"?

What do YOU think it means?

Not equality.

For who?

For anyone.

How is putting a person who fought for civil rights, a historical figure, on money and then giving her sister a bill as a keepsake affecting anyone’s equality negatively? No one loses, except for those who like racists for some stupid reason. It’s not like white people are banned from being on money, there are still plenty on currency. Only the truly privileged see equality as oppression, because they believe they deserve a superior position.

So please tell me what you’re trying to dance around because it seems like you’re upset a white man got replaced by a black woman on a Canadian dollar.

You seem to have really gotten your dander up. Did my accurate labeling of this situation as "virtue-signaling" get under your skin?

From the Urban Dictionary:

"To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else."

Or....

"Advocating a political or philosophical position, and/or taking up a public cause, from a position of vanity, for the primary purpose of demonstrating your conformity with fashionable pop culture values."

Viola Desmond may very well deserve to have her face on Canadian currency. But let's not pretend White Canadian Progressives don't have a self-serving agenda behind it.

Urban Dictionary is your source?


That site is 99.8% memes, descriptions of sex acts like “The Rusty Venture”, and trolling.

virtue signaling (n.): the practice of not being a shithead. Used primarily by those who are pathologically unable to stop themselves from being shitheads and need a way to dismiss and belittle those who can.

Clearly he's living in a very different part of the country than I am. If you're a Canadian citizen then you're a Canadian as far as I and many others are concerned. But I can see where someone solely focused on racial heritage can get wrapped up in racist identity politics.

I have no issue with Desmond occupying the ten. She deserves recognition for her protest against such foolish racist policies. It's unfortunate that Canadian society is so good at burying our less than proud moments of history.

I can't give the same praise to that ugly piece of shit building on the reverse. I still have a hard time deciding whether modernist architecture or brutalism provoke stronger feelings of disgust and depression upon the surrounding area.

And Spaceturkey. Perhaps you could elaborate more on your issues with Sir John A. Macdonald. Also why an architect and father of confederation deserves to be so casually dismissed as a "shitty old racist".

Apparently the Canadian Finance Minister thinks that putting Desmond's picture on the $10 bill will shift the balance of power in Canada from....Whites?.....to.....Blacks?

Huh.

I thought Canada was Equality Paradise. Healthcare system second only to Cuba (that's what Michael Moore says, anyway). Justin "White Obama" Trudeau in charge.

Why would a shift in the "balance of power" be necessary in Canada?

okay... describe this agenda of ours for the class.

hell, try and personalize it as mine for posting if it's easier.

not sure if this qualifies as trendy either, as the announcement was made a few years ago that she'd be commemorated.

Anyways, watch the video... fuckin' Kandyce McLure

I imagine you're now going to claim comparing Desmond with Parks is idiotic?

Sure.

and...

and...

"The objective – I quote from Sir John A. Macdonald, our revered forefather – was to 'take the Indian out of the child,' and thus solve what was referred to as the Indian problem. 'Indianness' was not to be tolerated; rather it must be eliminated. In the buzz-word of the day, assimilation; in the language of the 21st century, cultural genocide."


beyond that, he's simply obsolete. The country he lead wasn't even technically a country compared to what we have now, figuratively or literally... Trudeau the Elder is far more relevant to our nationhood. Do you think the Americans are going to throw, I dunno, Peter Stuyvesant on a bill?

Besides, he wasn't even born here.

So, yeah... like you say. We do tend to overlook our past shittiness. Sir John A gets reexamined/replaced by someone worthy first precisely because of the position he holds in our history.

Given what jsut went up at the end of my street, I'm going to say brutalism is far more offensive to the eye. That's the Museum of Civilizations in Ottawa, innit? Too bad about the shitty image, as it's actually really nice. Especially if you compare it to the Military History museum... :O

I don't think he said that at all:

I don't have to make that claim. Others have already done so:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/viola-desmond-rosa-parks-debate-1.3452989

Identity politics, scoring "woke" points, and virtue-signaling.

You’re crying because they put a black woman on currency you’ll never use because you’re so racist that you think this is a loss for white people.

If that’s how you really think, you deserve to lose this bizarre game you seem to think you’re in.

seems to be hair splitting about "comparing" as a word choice more than anything, despite that being valid as the basic facts of both their stories are reasonably comparable.
although I guess it makes sense that Rosa Parks is actually America's Viola Desmond based on when they acted.

So, nothing but fulfilling a checklist of buzz words? got it.

100%of Canadians will hear this, say “that’s cool” shrug and get on with their lives

You see we aren’t hysterical beta pussies like you are