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 and healthy.
I am back after a couple weeks of much-needed vacation, which I'm going to talk about next week,
but I made the unfortunate decision, which I regretted immediately, of shaving my face.
I hadn't shaved in 15 years and I decided I would see what was under that scruff and uh... yeah, no.
I don't even know what I look like.
But feel free to share comments down below as to what I look like.
That'll be fun.
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Don't worry, I'm growing it back as quickly as I can.
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you get it.
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I wanted to very briefly talk about what happened last week in Atlanta, Georgia
with the brutal murder of eight individuals who were specifically targeted because they were East- and South-East Asian,
and overall the significant uptick that we have seen in anti-Asian racism,
and not just in the United States but here in Canada over the past year.
It's just been inflated by the now-former president who still refuses to call the COVID-19 virus by its true name.
He calls it 'the China virus' or 'the Kung Flu'.
He's just a vile human being.
And it's encouraged racism and I think we all need to take a big step back as I...
The name of a virus doesn't tell us anything.
We call it the Spanish Flu of 1918, if you're not familiar, the Spanish Flu was the last great pandemic, but it didn't start in Spain.
It actually started in Kansas, but it's never referred to as 'the Kansas Flu'.
We tend to scapegoat and we fall into our old patterns of racist behaviour.
This virus is not Chinese-made, it just happened to have started in China, and quite frankly, it could've started anywhere
for a variety of reasons that I'm not going to go into,
but we need to really be careful about our behaviour towards people of different ethno-cultural groups based on one incident.
We fall into our old patterns of bias and discrimination so quickly and we need to be very careful of that.
So, I would encourage you to educate yourself, to spend some time with people of Asian descent,
whether they're your colleagues, your friends, your family members,
and listen and hear about what's going on in their lives because I think we can learn a lot from them.
That's it, just a quick message.
I hope you have a fantastic week.
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It's been two weeks!
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I'm pretty sure that's it.
Let's hope.
Have a fantastic week.
I'll see you next week for another episode of Monday Morning Musings.
Bye!
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