source: Haaretz.com

Merkel is apparently right; multiculturalism was never all that popular in the Western world.

source: The Boston Globe

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders appealed for freedom of expression Monday as he went on trial for alleged hate speech at a time when his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all-time highs.

Source: New York Times

When the nation’s first black president took the oath of office, surrounded by the grandeur of the National Mall, it was easy to forget that one of the country’s most isolated and impoverished black ghettos was a few short blocks away.

Source: Commentary Magazine

Source: The Gazette

SASKATOON – A former journalist testified at David Ahenakew’s hate crime trial, that the exFirst Nations leader believed Hitler “fried” 6 Million Jews in order to “clean up the world”. He states that telling the world about this statement was “in the public interest”.

Source: The Inverness Courier

Inverness, a town in the United Kingdom, has witnessed a 72.9 per cent rise in racist incidents this year. The possible reason for the minor as well as serious attacks on English or Polish people may be extreme Scottish nationalism.

Source: The Star

A tension arises in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city: Patients in nursing homes are generally white, while the employees, personal support workers, are in general people of color. Most of the patients were born into a time where racism and segregation was more common than nowadays.

“I love my residents and most of them appreciate me,” states Eulalie Thompson, who has worked in nursing homes in Toronto for more than 30 years.
“But, every day, somebody acts out, hits, calls me `black bitch, nigger.’ What can you do?”

by David Gardner
Source: dailymail.co.uk