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(National Post, January 18, 2006)

$ 1 8, 0 0 0 T O YO U T H C E N T R E Quebec convenience store giant settles complaint over racist candy wrapper CanWest News Service

As a Quebec-born black woman, Laurraine Leblanc says she has first-hand knowledge of subtle racism. But the final straw for Ms. Leblanc, pictured, was a caricature of a scowling black man on a package of Couche-Tard candy. Last summer, she filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission. She contends the image reinforced stereotypes of black men as aggressive. Yesterday, as part of a mediated settlement, the convenience store giant donated $18,000 to Youth in Motion, a teen drop-in centre. Ms. Leblanc acknowledged some people may consider the case a useless fight. “But it’s important in Quebec that we recognize that there is a subtle racism … and that we have to do something.”

I thought I had seen everything when it come to silly "human rights" cases, but this one takes the cake, er sorry...the candy bar. Astonishingly, a wrapper from a candy bar that is worth maybe $1 actually generated $18.000 as part of a settlement with a convenience store that was selling it. Where is the "human rights" madness going to stop? (National Post, January 18, 2006)

 
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there is subtle racism indeed

like those white kids getting shot in the head randomly riding a bus arround Finch and Kingston .

we should be worried about theese subtleties