"According to its website], BIPOC USHR recognizes intertwined systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy that actively work to undermine the overall well-being and achievements of BIPOC communities."

"How do hundreds of thousands of tax dollars, including for anti-racism and childcare inclusion training, end up in the hands of a  radical anti-Israel, anti-capitalist activist group in Prince Edward Island?"

"For background: there has recently been significant consternation in the P.E.I. childcare sector because the provincial government cut $1.4 million in funding for support staff. The effect on operators is significant, the cuts took place without consulting the sector and some operators have considered service disruptions such as strikes to protest them."

"But while the provincial government said it cannot afford the $1.4 million for staff funding, its childcare spending plans for the past year included a combined $1.25 million for administration [such as information-technology costs] and diversity and inclusion programs."

Matthew Lau, Financial Post 

Early Childhood Development Association of P.E.I., says pedagogical support staff are crucial to the daily operations of child-care centres. (FLICKR)

 

 Much dismay in the child-care sector in tiny Prince Edward Island in Canada's easternmost Maritime provinces. The P.E.I. government decided in its wisdom to cut government funding for provincial child care; a total of $1.4 million cut for support staff funding in the childcare sector. Oddly enough, funding of comparable size was made available to a group that openly celebrates and promotes the Palestinian 'cause', a cause geographically far distant from Canada. Promoting 'Palestine' comes with the link of denigrating and libeling Israel; a Middle East cause. 

 

Yet in tiny P.E.I. a Palestinian 'branch' flies the flag of Palestine and to make its presence and its 'cause' palatable in the West allies itself with the global Left, with Canada's restive, government-resentful Indigenous people, with the Black  demographic, citing White colonialism. Palestinian victimhood fits right in with these groups, consenting to be manipulated while accepting the Palestinian cause as reflective of their own prejudice-suffering state. The real indigeneity in the Middle East is that of Israel seated on its ancestral lands that Arabs from Egypt and Jordan claim as their own.

 

Furthermore the reality is that Gays, Blacks and First Nations people would not only be viewed as a despised underclass in Palestinian society, they would be placed in danger of their lives. The fantasy that Arab Palestinians would respect and admire, find brotherhood with these groups is a useful tactic to promote the Palestinian 'cause' in the West, but it doesn't pass muster in the Middle East generally. It was originally Arab Muslims who initiated the Black African slave trade. 

 

Canada's flirtation in the past several decades with Liberal-left social progressiveness has brought it to the altar of Critical Race Theory, wokeism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, guilting itself into admissions of 'colonialist' sins, cultural genocide against Canada's First Nations through a  century and a half of Indian Residential Schools, and its history of race prejudice. Canada has been swept by a tide of regret and compassion for the traditional plight of LGBTQ-2 community social rejection, so all of these groups have latterly been viewed as newly privileged, while the majority White, natal-sex population has been neutered in shame.

 

In P.E.I., the government's inclusion strategy was that of consultations with various organizations, one of which is BIPOC USHR (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour United for Strength, Home, Relationship). Funded and partnered with in recent years. BIPOC USHR was contracted with to deliver a series of anti-racism workshops to childcare workers and Department of Education and Lifelong Learning staff. "Educational resources" on the BIPOC USHR website boast titles such as "Information on the Hamas Charter", "Zionism is white supremacy", and "Kwame Ture on Zionism and Imperialism". 

 

 Kristin-Brown  Unsplash

 

Economics journalist Matthew Lau in examining the link between P.E.I. and the BIPOC USHR group discovered that Kwame Ture stated "I have never admired a white man, but the greatest of them, to my mind, was Hitler". There were evidently others that Kwame Ture admired as well, for their virtues, as when he referred to "that great man, V.I. Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)". 

 

Yet the P.E.I. government has funded BIPOC USHR for childcare anti-racism training, climate change projects, diversity and inclusion programs, and anti-racism initiatives. And nor is it the province of Prince Edward Island alone that has funded BIPOC USHR's programs, for the federal government as well has given it six grants for anti-racism programs.  

"BIPOC USHR stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour United for Strength Home Relationship. We are a support and advocacy not-for-profit for BIPOC communities on PEI."

"Started as a small group on the UPEI campus we hope to serve BIPOC communities on PEI."

"With the recognition that we reside on traditional, unceded Mi’kmaq territory and that we are people of the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1776, we work to decolonize at various levels and in many ways."

BIPOC USHR Website 

BIPOC USHR Website