Emma Ansah reports on the renaming of Toronto's main attractions to a Ghanaian name sparking outrage with the city council executives and the community
When bringing Ukrainian by plane in Canada, homelessness is not a problem, housing is not one , spending 9 billion on war is not problem, but may forbid that's something is associated with Black the people you love and were raised to hate then your true character will come out . Who raised you? Lineage of evil
The devilish animals just have to hear Black , then you'll know who and how they upbringing come to be . > . What these people got in the hearts is what the give . This is how the parents raised them to be
@@survivingwhitezaddy2.5 one of the great river in Africa is name after our enemies and oppressor try to change that name see how they react we are they most naive people on the face on the earth sadly why did u think they went all over the world naming stuffs
Just to add some context. The city of Toronto passed a vote to rename Dundas Street and other city-owned areas named after Henry Dundas. Henry Dundas extended slavery in the British Empire and wasn't even Canadian and never ever set foot on Canadian soil there's been a movement for a very long time to get his stuff renamed. So because of his connection to slavery that's why the proposal to rename young Dundas Square was to choose an African name.
that's great to hear, and its a great choice of name. SANKOFA means “to retrieve". And for those who think its a wrong choice to choose an African related name for place in Canada, just think of all those place in Africa and the Caribbean that are named by Europeans, that honours European locations and their own heroes.
Hey, did anyone find out or prosecut those police officers who allegedly threw that young lady out of that high-rise building. I've been waiting several years to hear something on that.
Reparations is the goal . We need bi weekly checks for the rest of our lives . My bank account is ready to receive. God bless Africa , all diasporans and anyone whose lineage is traced back to the motherland
NO, anyone who's ancestors were victims of enslavement. Because they stole our identity, Black indigenous enslaved people also included. We're not going for incremental payouts.
Henry Dundas is heavily associated with slavery in the british empire which is why the renaming comity suggested they choose a word in an African language to rename it.
Put me down as a "no" for this one. Canada should change the name to something Canadian. Why would they change the name to something outside their country? And Africa needs to get its own naming rights back. Trudeau is playing more mind games.
Toronto changing the name to a Ghanaian name makes as much sense as Ghana changing the name of some high profile location to a Canadian name. Again, its Toronto's right and subsequently their decision. Why do we never hear about reparations from the Africans that captured and sold other Africans into slavery? Didn't they help create the problem?
You are comparing apples with oranges. The name-change is appropriate because of the meaning of the word. They could have taken any name that has a similar message, it does not matter which part of the world it came from. As for slavery, most civilizations/ethnicities took "spoils of war" and did whatever they wanted with them so slavery has been in existence since the dawn of man. It is not right but it is widespread.
@Asalix2. Exactly, so why wouldn't Toronto change the name to an acknowledged Canadian hero, Wolfe, for example? Is there a site in a major Ghanaian city named after a Canadian? As you say slavery was widespread and still exists in some parts of the world (remember the Nigerian school girls). Why not either expand reparations demands to everywhere it existed and everyone that benefitted from it or accept it as history and move on from where we're at?
The boats used to transport enslaved ppl were not made in AFRICA or by Africans. The sailors were also not African nor were the “explorers”. The people who LEFT THEIR CONTINENT In search of riches were NOT Africans, The people who left in search of “things to buy” were NOT Africans, if you captured the warriors of an opposing group they surrendered & became your prisoners, every country on Earth was & is doing that. It’s not an African thing, It happened in WW1/2 u wouldn’t think twice about sending them away or killing the opposition to prove a point. To say Africans started slave trade is a damaging and disgusting deflection from the atrocities of the transatlantic slave trade. So I say The people who started it are the people who left their homeland with nothing and came back with EVERYTHING
@@donaldmaxie5264 There are many streets in Canada named after Canadian heroes. The reason Sankofa makes sense is because Dundas blocked the abolition of slavery for 15 years! He was one of the biggest advocates for the enslavement of Africans. It actually makes the most sense that the name has roots in a place that was vastly affected by that very same atrocity.
@@MRPhoto_Digital Don't think anyone is saying Africans originated slavery. The practice of slavery is so old that it's origin is lost in the mists of time. There are historical records that provide evidence Vikings selling slaves from Europe to Arabs. Slavery was widespread in parts of Europe and the Arabian states. Slaves came from everywhere. Just as a side note the Arabs preferred females for their harems, males were castrated (many didn't survive) so they didn't mess around in the harem. This was also long before the Americas were discovered.
