Sobeys agreed to apologize and offer staff training on discrimination and racial profiling after public outcry prompted a months-long boycott. Nova Scotia’s first black lieutenant-governor, Mayann Francis, came forward at the time to reveal that she, too, had been the victim of repeated racial profiling while shopping. El Jones, a Halifax poet and community organizer, says racial profiling is a result of black people being seen as a threat. Consumer racial profiling is one instance of the continued racism people experience everyday, she says. The consequences of racial profiling include black children being over-represented in the child welfare system, black students facing higher suspension rates and being streamed into lower tracks at school, she says.

Source: National Post May 28, 2018 18:11 UTC