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RSS FeedsTrudeau brownface scandal: Here´s how some young voters of colour are reacting to those images
(The Star Books)

 
 

20 september 2019 03:42:48

 
Trudeau brownface scandal: Here´s how some young voters of colour are reacting to those images
(The Star Books)
 


EDMONTON—Many young voters of colour breathed a sigh of disappointment Thursday as images and a video of federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wearing brownface makeup circulated in Canadian and international media.Aadil Fazal, a first-year engineering student at the University of Alberta, had been scrolling through the internet when he saw the images.“Initially, before I knew how old he was, I wasn’t too concerned with it,” Fazal said of the Arabian Nights photo first revealed by Time magazine on Wednesday. The 2001 photo from a Vancouver private school where Trudeau was a teacher showed the future prime minister grinning widely at an “Arabian Nights”-themed party while wearing a decorative turban and dark makeup that covered his face and hands entirely.“But when I found out he was almost 30 when he did that, I feel like he should have known a little better than to dress up in brownface,” Fazal said.Fazal said the photos have left him conflicted, admitting he’s undecided about who to vote for in the federal election next month. Aliya Lakha, a fifth-year student at University of Alberta, said she was surprised to see the images of Trudeau. “I was not expecting it,” Lakha said. “(It) doesn’t really seem like something he would do.”But Lakha said she respects the fact that Trudeau apologized Wednesday night, and that she’s aware of problematic actions of political candidates in other parties, some of whom have been accused of being racist or homophobic. Her vote, she added, will remain with the Liberals. The Liberal party, and more specifically the image of Trudeau, rests heavily on its progressive approach to a myriad of issues, including immigration and multiculturalism. Chaldeans Mensah, a political science professor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, said Trudeau’s identity has now been hugely tarnished.Mensah said he reacted with “complete and utter disappoin ...


 
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