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KINSELLA: Trudeau traded in the foulest racist stereotypes

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An ape?

The video is grainy.  It’s blurry, and it’s hard to make out who is in it.

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But we don’t have to guess.  The Liberal Party of Canada has confirmed to Global News — which released the video on Thursday morning — that it depicts Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Liberal Party and the Prime Minister of Canada.

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Acting like an ape.

In the video, he’s covered (again) in blackface.  He really worked at it, too: he made certain to smear dark make-up on his face, neck, ears, arms.  Even his legs.  We can see through the holes in his jeans that he did that.

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There are three photographs, now, of Trudeau in blackface.  One from his high school days in Montreal, and two from a party at the high school he taught at in Vancouver.  With his hand on an unidentified young woman’s chest.

He was about 30 in that last photo.  He was someone who taught kids — who was supposed to be setting an example for kids.

But we digress.  Back to the video.

In the video, Justin Trudeau is seen for only a few fleeting seconds.  There’s no sound.  But it is unmistakable what the future Prime Minister of Canada and his pals are doing.

Trudeau’s acting like an ape.  Sticking out his tongue, waving around his arms, shuffling around like a simian would, in a zoo or a jungle or something.

I showed the video to my shocked colleagues when they came into the office.  Two of them are card-carrying Liberals.  They agree with me: Justin Trudeau was in blackface, acting like an ape.

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Now, why would he do that?

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Brent Staples is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times.  Around the time Roseanne Barr called an advisor to Barack Obama the progeny of an ape, Staples wrote an extensive study about that.  About how racists like to depict black people as apes.

Like Justin Trudeau did.

Here’s Staples:  “[It’s] one of the oldest and most profoundly racist slanders in American history … This depiction — promoted by slave traders, historians and practitioners of “scientific” racism — was used to justify slavery, lynching and the creation of the Jim Crow state … [It’s] the ape caricature.”

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Throwing bananas at black public figures.  Making noises like apes at public events. Calling Michelle Obama “an ape in heels.”  It’s all aimed at one simple, incontrovertible message: that black people are animals.  That they are less than whites.  That they belong in cages.

At this point — and with the Trudeau in blackface leading newscasts around the planet — the evidence cannot be rebutted: the Prime Minister of Canada, as man and not just a boy, traded in the foulest racist stereotypes.  He thought it was funny.  He thought he could get away with it.

So, that’s him: he’s the scum of the Earth.  He doesn’t deserve to be elected dogcatcher, let alone a Prime Minister of a G7 country.

So, oddly, the issue isn’t him.  It’s now the members of the Liberal Party.  It’s us.

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Will Liberal MPs now publicly condemn their “leader,” as I counselled two distressed Grit MPs to do this morning?  They must.

And, Canadians, too, have a decision to make.  Will we let him get away with it? Trudeau and his loathsome coterie are laying low, clearly believing this all will blow over in time.  And it might, you know.

It is up to us — Canadians— to say: not good enough.  Not on.  Not this time.

Justin Trudeau — the goddamned Prime Minister of Canada — is on a video, this morning, joking that black people are, you know, apes.

This man is unfit.  We, Canadians, must line up on October 21 and reject him and his ways.

We must.

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