NOT ALWAYS HAPPY IN CANADA BUT FOREVER JOLLY
Book Review In The Black: My Life --> By B. Denham Jolly An edited version of this review appeared in Huffington Post today In the Black, a new autobiography by activist businessman and radio pioneer Denham Jolly, is going to have members of Toronto's white community seeing red. It might have Black Lives Matter soldiers taking names and making notes. "To the white readers of this book, I have to stress that for Black people the basic and continuing infringements of our rights are not mere distractions. Canadians like to congratulate themselves over our diversity, but … " Denham Jolly told me when we talked about his early days in Toronto. Quoting from his just published book, he explains that discriminatory policing (from carding to driving while Black) "remain part of our day-to-day life and cast a long shadow over it." From time-to-time over the past four decades, Jolly and I have crossed paths. He doesn't remember m...