In her initial defence of Mr. Blackface, veteran Liberal MP Judy Sgro offered up the usual nonsense: We were all young once and sometimes made poor choices and mistakes, blah, blah, blah.
This would wash, perhaps, if Justin Trudeau was a child when he wore blackface, but he has admitted doing it three times over the course of about a decade, from when he was a student to when, at the age of 29, he was teaching students.
Then radio host Jacqueline Dixon asked what sort of reaction Sgro had been getting from her constituents in Humber River-Black Creek, Ont., only one of the country’s most diverse ridings, with, according to the 2016 census, the highest percentage of visible minorities, particularly people from Latin America, Southeast Asia, Jamaica and Vietnam.
“Let me tell you that knocking on doors, being in the plazas … to make sure I’m as sensitive as I need to be (on this issue).
“Those in the black community have told me how much more love they have for the prime minister. He wanted to have a black face, he took great pride in it too.
“They’re (black constituents) looking for more ways that they can show how much they support and love the prime minister.”
A couple of hours after the gobsmacking Sept. 28 interview on GBKM FM, a free internet radio station based in Toronto, was posted to Twitter Wednesday by writer Andray Domise and the twitterverse went wild, Sgro attempted to walk the comments back.
The comments were “insensitive” she said on Facebook and “I should have known better, and I apologize.”
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