CHCH - Lincoln Alexander elected to Parliament, 1968

Published onOct 19, 2012 by CHCHTelevision We mark the passing of Lincoln Alexander, with this clip from our 1968 federal election coverage in which he's interviewed by CHCH Ottawa reporter Bill Gold, after his victory in Hamilton West - making him Canada's first African-Canadian MP

We've come a long way baby! Sort of. I mean in fact I haven't seen many other black brothers run for political office in Canada in quite some time or you're just not interested.

Lincoln Alexander what's the brother who was born in Canada in the 19 twenty's, experienced the depression, World War 2, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. 1 Black Canadian born in this country to take positive advantage of the resources and people that he had seen, grown up, and worked with to make a difference in Canada. Why is it that we do not see that today? What went wrong since 1968 1 year after the Expos from 1967 in Montreal Quebec, that  bright "multicultural assimilated"  future especially for the male Afro black Canadians backlash in a very highly negative way. Soon many young black male are getting involved in drugs, gangs, going to jail and contributing to fatherless births. Meanwhile, other men of tribe around the world including women were taking advantage of the opportunity to give back to the society that gave them the freedom to live and prosper. The black male ostracized himself from getting involved in public community forums, law enforcement, even fire department service. Imagine politics? We could always say the employer has the bias against us. We can't say since we don't know how many applications have been sent to that fire department services or  local MNA office.
Where is the young black man's chutzpah today to get out there and take the fat of the land, live to prosper. Multiplying, his family with the blessings to provide. So far this is not the case in this generation more likely because we not only have no positive black Canadian mentors that are black with in our community, along with not enough money in our government programs to create Mentor ship. The media portrayed Blacks for years in a ignorant image especially when we look at the music style and fashion style image that young teenagers wanted to identify with for the last thirty years. Do you remember Mister T? At least he was on the good side. Real to get respect among their peers. Definitely being other lieutenant governor has nothing to do with it or at least this is what we see in Canada. I mean within the United States the young black male still has a lot of prejudice and heavy political injustice as well as the women yet  ingrained generational and territorial history to feel a definite part of their country enough to run for top office delegate government careers, and for this is why we see you today an American president of color. Sure we all can say race is not a reason to elect someone to run a country still the reality is the fact that they have a demographic melting pot, open minded enough to overlook on the color and choose the qualifications for their president. I believe that before we see the same result in Canada we have a long way to go, baby. Should more initiative for black Canadians representing in our Canadian government be addressed along the many other growing pains in this generation?
I feel so but who cares. Maybe, that gangsta looking for that positive break, for real.