Hey folks! It's me, Michael Bach, your Diversity Dude, and this is Monday Morning Musings.
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Happy Monday!
I hope this finds you well, safe, healthy, you had a nice weekend.
I turned 50 over the weekend.
Yeah, so that happened.
And yet, society did not crumble.
Congratulations!
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Glad you could spend some time with me.
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which is pretty much every Monday, except when I forget it's Monday and do it on Tuesday.
And I also have to apologize because I kind of missed February starting last Monday.
Since time has no meaning, I actually didn't realize that Monday was February 1 and I missed Black History Month,
which of course is the theme of my Monday Morning Musings for this month.
So yeah... I'm going to blame COVID for this.
Let's go with that.
Anyway, the first thing I wanted to talk about,
and there are so many things I could talk about during Black History Month,
is an initiative that I saw on CBC last week I think, could've been this weekend, I don't know, anyway,
it's called Black Owned Canada and it's an initiative by a woman by the name of Kerin John,
and she is calling on business owners across Canada that are Black-owned businesses to sign up for this initiative.
And there's a website, it's ShopBlackOwned.ca
and the idea is just to drive business towards Black-owned businesses across Canada to highlight the amazing work of Black entrepreneurs, Black artists, Black artisans.
So, I am simply calling that out and suggesting that you go ShopBlackOwned.ca, check out the list.
It's a small list so far, I'm fully just going to say that, but that's okay.
It's going to grow.
I have purchased some juice from Lush Infusions and I'm happy to support Black-owned businesses,
and I would encourage you to do the same.
That's it!
Just wanted to highlight that.
Going to do some more next week.
Go out and celebrate Black History Month.
Learn more about the contributions of Black Canadians,
of people of Black Afro-Caribbean descent and the wonderful things they have done to make Canada a better place.
That's it.
I hope you have a fantastic week.
Stay safe, stay healthy.
If you haven't already, remember to subscribe by clicking on the link and also like and share the video.
Just like it, share it, share it on your social media platforms.
Help spread the word about Shop Black Owned and help support this amazing initiative.
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Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right, available now wherever you get books as long as they're selling mine.
Also, available right here, how do you like that?
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Okay, I think that's it.
Oh, no!
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How did I forget that?
I should write these down, one of these days.
It's only been five years.
I should write them down.
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Okay, *now* that's it.
Have a great week and I'll see you next for another episode of Monday Morning Musings.
Bye!
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