by ItaiChitapi | Jun 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
This piece was originally published on LinkedIn on June 4, 2020. Central Park in New York. Last week, May 25th, 2020. Amy Cooper. Dog walker in the Ramble – fine if the dog is leashed. Christian Cooper. Bird watcher in the ramble – just fine. Amy Cooper. White...
by ItaiChitapi | Jun 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The BUDKIWAC series [Bet-U-Didn’t-Know-I-Was-A-Canadian] continues this month with a piece on the exploits of Terry Fox, in the month when we celebrate his life and commemorate the 39th anniversary of his death. The fog of self-absorption and cozy ignorance in...
by ItaiChitapi | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I will be in Canada for the foreseeable future (whatever that means in the days of COVID-19!), I have decided to run a regular feature called “Bet U Didn’t Know I Was [A] Canadian!” The corny but cute BUDKIWAC will one day be a household acronym. The objective of...
by ItaiChitapi | Jan 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
We are so broken that we cannot respond usefully to the brokenness of our society. Some of us are still so affected by a past regime that actively disenfranchised us, that to this day we react, or fail to react, from a psychological position of disempowerment. Some...
by ItaiChitapi | May 7, 2019 | Election, General, Uncategorized
Yesterday I darkened the doors of an unfamiliar bank to open a new bank account. For 19 years, I have tolerated, endured, and put up with generally indifferent service from my “legacy bank”, the institution I signed up with by default when I became an independent...
by Itai Chitapi | Apr 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Context: Eusebius McKaiser is the host of Radio 702’s mid-morning show, The Eusebius McKaiser Show. The 8 April 2019 edition revisited a conversation from the previous edition about the problem of structural inequality and its solution. Lesley, a white female owner of...
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