Opinion: Identity politics bite PM Trudeau in the butt – again
Do last week’s blackface photos of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prove that he is a racist? People’s Party leader Maxime Bernier said it so well: “The PM is not a racist, just a hypocrite.”
Unless you just returned from your bucket-list trip to Siberia, you no doubt know that pictures emerged last week of a 29-year-old Justin Trudeau painted black in an Arabian Knights costume party while he was a teacher at a private school in Vancouver.
This was the third occasion in which he was dressed in blackface for some party, and he was asked over the weekend if it was the final time photos of such would be found. His answer was to avoid the question, making me think he is a serial blackface offender (“brownface” as the Liberal media have spun it to soften the negative taboo against Trudeau).
Regardless, racism is in the heart. It is not simply uttering some off-handed comment, or making a joke, or playing dress up with black make-up.
But embarrassing photos seem to be a weekly event for the PM. The week prior, he was photographed in creepy too-close photos with 19-year-old Bianca Andreescu, our newly crowned Canadian tennis champion. Those photos .
