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Originally Posted by Stryker
That shes a complete anecdote in historical terms and its quite blatantly the kind of shit you get when you have people eho have educational backgrounds in marketing trying to run a country.
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I don't think many people in NS would agree with that statement, tbh
I think you underestimate how integral African Nova Scotians* are to the general Nova Scotian identity. We feel represented by her because she is one of us. Her story is our story in a way that Laura Secord's or Bombardier's or Neil Young's or Chris Hadfield's is not.
Or to put it differently, I think that even those don't actively want a minority and/or woman on the bill (this province is one of the most left-leaning in the country) would just be happy to see a Nova Scotian on the bill. More accurately, most people here probably don't know/care enough about the issue to really have a strong opinion either way. Her story resonates across most of Canada because Canada as it exists now could not exist as it does (or would be really really fucked) if racial discrimination could still be blatantly enforced in policy.
*This has been a mainstream term here my whole life - it's not some circa 2016 SJW invention
I'm curious who you'd rather see on the bill