Not so very long ago, I used to consider the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to be a very important part of a balanced media diet. Now they bring us this report; a painfully compassionate voiceover telling the brave story of the Guelph Black Historical Society, entitled "Marking the Painful Past", where the Executive Director of a historical society hosted a public book burning.

Undoubtedly, at least some of the stuff they showed would be considered racist in this day and age, and in my opinion was racist at the time it was created. The starring such example is the blackface photo. However, others are less evident, such as the item she pulls out of the box while saying "It was really painful to take hold some of these imageries [sic] and think that these were how some of my ancestors are depicted." The item she is holding while she says this appears to be a hand carved African sculpture of a Masai woman featuring the tribe's traditional stretched earlobes. Not sure how that's a source of pain to her, though I would question how much of a connection this upper middle class Canadian actually feels to a culture as hard working and proud as the Masai.

Toward the end, the President of the "historical society" states without a trace of irony, "So we need to make sure that people are still aware and they keep it in their consciousness that racism is... something that we need to work towards eliminating."

Really? How are you going to keep this in people's consciousness when you're destroying the very examples of past intolerance that could be exhibited at your historical society in order to educate future generations that we need to work towards a better future?

So, to Guelph Black Historical Society President Denise Francis, to its Executive Director Kween (yass, that is her actual name), and to the CBC - congratulations! You are my Retards of the Week! Edit: I found another retard for this week (CBC, eh?), so I'm deeming these jack booted morons my first ever Retards of the Month!