Re – The uncomfortable truth

Peter Bennett | Jun 24, 2020

Do you remember some brief moment in your life  when you were unfairly treated, slighted ,finding yourself  the odd man out, a minority of one? Now imagine reliving that moment over and over and over in a variety of settings and social interactions. This is the landscape that Amrit Kaillon outlines in her beautifully written piece, The Uncomfortable Truth in this week's "News". It is amazing that someone who has witnessed such a variety of human cruelties around the world can write such a measured piece.

Amrit highlights the potency of "killing words". I’m struck by how the gentlest people can say the unkindest things from the skewed rhetoric of colonial superiority. We always have our antennae out to make sure there is someone below us on the totem pole.

I hope the Frontenac News can continue to publish such prescient and important  writing rooted in local experience, and am forwarding this piece to my contact at Amnesty International in hopes that its power and eloquence can find an even wider audience.

Peter Bennett