WINNIPEG – Just four months into its existence, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has announced a new outdoor massive exhibit on discrimination it has entitled “The City of Winnipeg.”
“We wanted to give museum-goers a real life experience of racial discrimination to get our message across,” said museum director Emilie Rosen. “So, why not take the exhibit to Portage and Main to see where the actual discrimination occurs?”
The exhibit required no preparation time, is open 24-7 and has many interactive features including stereotypes and misconceptions of indigenous people, white privilege denial, mass incarceration, poverty, colonization and gentrification.
“Wow, I never knew that I could learn so much about human rights, or the lack there of, outside of a museum,” said Minnesota tourist Andy Flemington.
A Winnipeg walking tour is also available where visitors can compare the houses from River Heights to those in the North End.
“Here’s where some of the citizens deny that the murder rate is high since it’s only Aboriginals who are being killed,” said walking tour guide Cheryl Ouellette to a group of tourists. ”And this is the place where you’ll sometimes hear people quietly say to each other how indigenous people ‘need to get over it.’”
After snapping some pictures of the homeless population, the tour group then made its way to the city’s center.
“This is the downtown; bustling during the day, but claimed to be ‘dangerous’ and ‘too urban’ at night unless there’s a Jets game on.”
At press time, some locals began admitting to the racism, but claimed that Regina is so much worse.
