Justin Trudeau`s painful blackface past a teachable moment: observers
(WorldNews Canada)

TORONTO — The image of a smiling Justin Trudeau in a turban and dark makeup is unquestionably offensive, but law professor and former Ontario human rights commissioner Errol Mendes says the rest of the bombshell photo is more telling — a row of smiling friends, arm-in-arm with Trudeau, seemingly unfazed by the overt racism. “(It’s a) classic example of what we in the anti-discrimination legal and academic community call unconscious racism,” Mendes says Thursday from his University of Ottawa office. “And that is the reason why it’s not staggering — because it happens every single day, in every single place.” The astonishing image is among...