The NDP is once again calling for the firing of a Premier Jason Kenney speech writer after finding he had used the N-word in a column years ago..“Paul Bunner spreads hate through his writing,” said NDP David Shepherd, MLA for Edmonton-City Centre, Tuesday..“Systemic racism and homophobia is fuelled by the kind of hatred that Paul Bunner writes and publishes. By refusing to fire Paul Bunner, Jason Kenney endorses his racism and homophobia.”.The NDP said a 2003 article Canada’s Cracked Mosaic, Bunner recalls his time at Boston University when another Canadian student warned him “to be careful about blacks…one of the other hockey players, a native Bostonian, invited me into his room to show me the biggest handgun I had ever seen. ‘It’s for the n——,’ he said.” (original text not redacted).Bunner has also blamed minorities for a large percent of crime..“Ethnic minorities are disproportionately involved in violent crime on both sides of the border, but at least Americans admit it,” Bunner wrote..“In this country the Toronto Star attacks the police as racist when they point out the over-representation of blacks in the city’s violent crime statistics. When Indian thugs trap white kids and cut them to pieces, the Edmonton police quickly rule out a racial motive and nobody balks..“Everyone knows that race is the defining element of violent crime in Canada today. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“The weekly casualty figures from the gang wars in Toronto’s Jamaican ghetto read like dispatches from a war zone. The shooting of five East Indians during the first weekend of December in Vancouver was but the latest skirmish in a decade-long war that has killed 50 people. On the prairies, if it’s not Asian gangbangers whacking each other and occasionally innocent bystanders, it’s aboriginal murder and mayhem..“The Christmas season in Edmonton opened with five white teenagers being lured into a house, where at least a half-dozen reputed members of the Alberta Warriors Native gang allegedly tortured and terrorized them for two hours.”.The NDP said Bunner is the author of numerous racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and homophobic articles dating from the late 1990s up to 2016..Bunner’s 2013 article The ‘Genocide’ That Failed claimed that residential school survivors were fabricating their experiences to create a “bogus genocide story” for financial gain. .Several indigenous leaders have called for Kenney to fire Bunner, including the Confederacy of Treaty Six Chiefs, and Marlene Poitras, Alberta regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations..Matt Wolf, Kenney’s issue manager tweeted Tuesday: “NDP claims that Paul Bunner used a racial slur. The column talks about his revulsion to the racism he saw in the US, and befriending 2 black students “I came away with the conviction that no matter how poisoned a society is by racism, it can be overcome.”.He also tweeted earlier NDP icon Tommy Douglas opposed homosexuality..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
