Blacks Shout For Equal Treatment

And here is a case where they are getting it but the left wing media appears to be trying to say it is not fair. I agree and will support them if they will come out and promote a second chance for those who have lost their jobs and had their reputations tarnished because of an off the cuff comment.........the more high profile people would be Richards, Gibson, etc. but think back about all of the radio personalities who lost their jobs.

Black advocate under fire
Due to one comment, the credibility of one of the city's black advocates has come under fire
Dec. 13, 2006. 05:41 AM
JIM RANKIN
STAFF REPORTER

"If things aren't right, it's no use to sit back and complain. Nobody else is going to fix it if you don't try." — Valarie Steele shares her credo with a reporter in 2003

Perhaps somewhere in the hours of wiretap intercepts amassed by Toronto police in the investigation into her son and others, Valarie Steele's credo has been overheard alongside a conversation that has all but assured she will never again preside over another landlord-tenant dispute.

And it would be fitting, really.

It would seem the lifelong activist and advocate for change in Toronto's black communities was living up to that credo when, caught on police telephone wiretaps played at her son's bail hearing last week, she crossed a line that a government-appointed housing tribunal adjudicator cannot cross.

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