The late Mrs. Carrie M. Best developed a newspaper she called: The Clarion from injustices within the Negro community, as it was called then.Victims of injustice such as Viola Desmond The Clarion supported and championed these causes.
Later she changed the name of her newspaper to The Negro Citizen and it is to her efforts in part that this blog owes its creation and it is on those same foundations on which this one person effort delicately rests.
Mrs. Best realized, as I do, that Black people are often not treated fairly in Nova Scotia. They were allowed only limited access to movie theatres, not served in restaurants and denied access to employment and to justice which other citizens, financially better situated, are accorded full access. This in part explains why so many Black Nova Scotians take up residence in the region's prisons.
Not only are prisons a very poor use of taxpayers' tax dollars, imprisonment is also a waste of human potential and that’s why it is not calculated into the cost of running the nation's prisons.
A recent United Nations report on racism in Canada does not give our nation passing grades.
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