Former player on 1st all-Black line in Canadian university hockey speaks out on racism in game
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Percy Paris is 'saddened' by what 16-year-old goaltender Mark Connors of the Halifax Hawks went through, but applauds him for sharing his experiences with racism in hockey.
As a former N.S. MLA and a member of the first all-Black line in Canadian university hockey, Percy Paris is no stranger to racism.
He says it was “more relevant when we were on road trips.”
“Opposing teams and their fans would often use racial slurs that were directed at me,” Paris tells Global News.
He says he wasn’t surprised, but was “saddened” to hear the experience Mark Connors had at a tournament in P.E.I. last month.
Paris says racism has been a fight that previous generations have taken on.
“It’s one that we should’ve taken care of years ago,” he says. “It still is here.”
“I don’t think we’ll ever get to the spot, certainly not in my lifetime; I think there will always be racism,” Paris says. “I think what we can do and what we can do and what we can hope for and what we can strive for is to lessen it.”
But he says organizations and corporations should’ve been more proactive decades ago.
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