Racialized people face greater indifferences than white people. They are at greater risk of poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing/homelessness, and food insecurity. The issues racialized groups face is systemic, it is written in the policies to ensure that the system is built to not allow them to progress or be uplifted. In the article there is the quote, ‘We aren’t truly free, until we’re all free’, this idea sticks with me because we are thought to be in a free country. The system dehumanizes us all and by not being anti-racist there is a compliance to an oppressive system. The voices of marginalized people need to be amplified and their lived experience needs validation. 

“Modern scholarship views these socially constructed racial identities as often being created by socially dominant groups, and involving the subjugation of groups seen as racially inferior. As stated by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, these “racial identities reflect the cultural attitudes of imperial powers dominant during the age of European colonial expansion.”

Canadian Human Rights Commission. Discussion Paper on Systemic Racism. 2020, https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/resources/publications/discussion-paper-systemic-racism. Accessed 20 May 2025.