Beyond Green Consulting Inc.

The Systemic Injustice course is derived from Beyond Green’s award-winning documentary “Systemic Injustice.” Systemic Injustice examines how the continued presence of Indigenous mascots demonstrates a profound culture of Indigenous racism. Mascots are not the primary problem, but a symptom of Canada’s gaslighting of Indigenous racism. It should make you question whether Canada is the country you think or hope, it is.

The course is divided into 12 segments to break down the irregularities Indigenous mascots represent and to try to understand why mainstream Indigenous racism is tolerated. The inconsistencies between Canada’s aspirations for its culture and the reality of its embedded Indigenous racism, the systemic bias, is there for everyone to see but is not discussed like the emperor’s nudity. Canadians’ virtue signal at every opportunity, praising the country’s progress in Indigenous relations without loosening its grip over Indigenous peoples.

If Canada hopes to become the inclusive country it seeks to be, then Canadians have to demand that mainstream racism is no longer tolerated. My work greatly contributed to eliminating the Blackhawks logo from the largest youth hockey league in the world, the Greater Toronto Hockey League, yet Blackhawks teams still play in Hockey Canada and the NHL team appears on CBC Hockey Night In Canada. A Hockey Night broadcaster called Craig Berube “Chief”, a known Indigenous slur, on a broadcast in November 2023.  That has to change. One race can no longer be set aside for unlimited ridicule.