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by carsongross 4491 days ago
>I can’t help noticing that 100% of the people I see who are building the future and making the big bucks are ethnically Chinese, Indian, or white. And 100% of the people I see who are washing floors or guarding doors or serving fast food are black and Mexican and Central-American.

Hilariously, blacks and hispanics make up less than 2.5% of Vancouver's population:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vancouver

But, please, lecture us more on the topic.

Personally, I live in Sacramento, America's most diverse city: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,340694,00... So I'm allowed to lecture ALL OF YOU regarding your privilege.

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Did you actually read that article? Or did I massively misread it. He never talked about blacks and hispanics in Vancouver. "Our own racist stench is that Canada’s original inhabitants no longer number among what I called our “main ethnic groups”" But, please, lecture us more on an article you didn't read
But then he says it's not the bad kind of racism, so Vancouver is still better: "So yeah, it sucks, but it’s not a systemic thing you see in every bloody burger joint and cleaning crew."