The "I have nothing Interesting to Say" Thread

[Michel]

   

[Lil Me]

 Definately gives me a greater understanding of what we came from.
 
 I'm re-thinking my desire to learn "proper" Cantonese (HK style).  The family speaks a funny "village dialect" from circa 1900.  I'm thinking that maybe I should learn to PROUDLY speak the old village way.  Because that's our language, even though the larger population in Vancouver makes fun of it.
   

[Michel]

   

[Michel]

     
 

[Lil Me]

 Amazing photo, Michel.
 My parents have friends who were sent to internment camps as children during WWII (same generation of Japanese-Canadians as David Suzuki).
  It's unbelievable.
 
 I didn't know about the black right to vote in 1960.  *files trivia away for later use*
   

[P.C.]

I didn't know that either Lil Me.  It would be less shocking, but no less horrible, if that was 1860.

[Michel]

     

[Michel]

   
 

[P.C.]

Blacks were not even allowed to vote here before 1960 according to David Suzuki.

  I'm not sure, but I don't think that's accurate.  

[Michel]

     

[Michel]

               

[P.C.]

It might be in his autobiography, but I still don't think it's accurate.  I'm a little confused.  Saltspring had a large population of blacks in the mid 1800's.....and as land owners, they were allowed to vote.      

[P.C.]

I should add, that history is definitely not my forte.

[Michel]

   

[Michel]