Dojo the Ninja Squirrel and "Welcome to Bigot Country!"

Here is Dojo in his Ninja glory, as he carries out his assault on Linda. I’ve left the sound on so you can hear her pure, innocent kind-heated nature as she tries to assist this….reprobate. Poor Linda, always attracted to ‘bad boys’ (“They can change, I know it!”)

Ninja Squirrel from Elizabeth McClung on Vimeo.

I was going to blog about how I met a reader today in a place my clothes were removed from me (unrelated incidents alas!). But I will leave that and the story of how I found out the same old Coot who told me I “was too young to UNDERSTAND Moby Dick” just sank my library job. Apparently, I didn’t get it, because there were no interviews with short list but three people to determine the ‘best candidate’ for the library, and it seems that my letter of “Fuck, I am the fucking bomb for this job. I will bring twelve types of literary shit to this program…” wasn’t the image of Victoria they wanted. They like to think of themselves as the cultured and the elite; while the rest of the world wonders we act like deluded pricks? I mean we are the most unethically diverse major city in Canada (white bred!) and we’re PROUD of that. We have a higher high school dropout rate than the rest of the province but since we per capita spend more on Opera Tickets, there seems no pressing need that we also rated one of the cities with the highest per capita rate of homesless, drug addiction and sexual abuse (Just this year Victoria citizens were rounded up in Operation Koala, a sting of online users of child pornography, created on-demand – the same year the city decided to have its official ads as Victoria a town of lust, orgasm and the promise of experiencing "that tingling sensation.")

Victoria is a city that maintains it’s self view by jamming its head up it’s ass and then gets annoyed at anyone who says that smell might not be from flowers. Welcome to Victoria, the city that became capital by becoming a free port, exactly the same as the infamous Port Royale. Welcome to Victoria, who TOLD black American businessmen in 1900's who could NOT be full citizens in the US to come to Victoria and be citizens. But when they arrived by the hundreds, Victoria sent them to an separate island and treated them so bad that Victoria became more known for the minorities that left here than the diversity. 1880: Black families, realizing they will never become Canadians, leave to go BACK to where lynching occurs (the USA) because it is a better climate. Only their graveyard on Salt Spring remains. In 1940’s the city boarded up the Synagogue after determining only two Jewish families remained in the city. 1942-43: All Japanese are removed to Alberta where they are forced to pick crops. Few if any return, as they property was official “bought off.” Now they visit as tourists, sometimes. In 1947, the Chinese, who had been in Victoria since 1858 in the oldest Canadian Chinese settlement received the right to vote (Asians being the only Canadian group denied voting rights by race). The Japanese didn’t get the right to vote until a year later in 1948. Not that any were here in Victoria.

Tomorrow I will go to Pride tomorrow to ask, as I did last year, if the RCMP or Police force are interested in any people with disabilities (“No”). And if hate crimes against LGBT people continue to happen (“Yes, a lot, particularly near Johnston street Bridge”) and why they never are public reported. But then that would be from the Times Colonist, who only last year actually admitted the town HAD a Pride event. But since being a “homosexual” (not the act, not doing it in public, just BEING homosexual) was a crime with automatic prison time in Victoria until 1969. Not until 10 years later, 1978 did Canada (and Victoria) stop the automatic inadmissable status to immigration of a person IF they were homosexual. In Parliament Sven Robinson tries to get ‘Sexual Orientation’ added to the Human Rights act in 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1991. All bills fail to pass parliament. In 1993 the Senates passes a bill which will add “Sexual Orientation” to Canada’s Human rights act……but the parliament dissolves before it can ratified in the House of Commons.

1996: The bill finally passes.

Here in town, in Oak Bay, the city whose schools have told PFLAG that they “don’t have gay students” but that if they every ‘have a gay’ they will contact them. But until them, PFLAG is not welcome in the schools of the richest, most white dominated suburb of Victoria (where the kids after school go to the coffee shop to charge their drinks to the “family tab”).

I am not even touching the medical system, see. This is why I left 10 years ago (back when I would finally have been granted a 'human right'), and came back to find the exact same people in the exact same jobs, now deciding if I have a job. But I will explain that tomorrow. After I find out if like last year I am the only manual wheelchair user at the towns unaccessible gay and lesbian event (with no disabled parking). Last year the lesbians didn’t talk to me, so I ended talking to straight burlesque dancers instead. I can’t say I’m expecting much to change. You can not catch me later at the towns only lesbian/gay club (down 14 stairs).

We a town of self pleased hypocrites in a nation of bigots. We are Canada.