Originally Posted by
paulwoods13
I don't know who's equating Canada with Alabama; for the record, I'm not. But "unofficial" segregation is still segregation. The policy doesn't have to be in writing for it to be a barrier.
Granted, Canada did not have a huge Black population decades ago. But there were Blacks living here, and Indigenous peoples, and I have no doubt some of them would have been athletic enough to warrant a chance to play their chosen sport. Yet somehow few of them played on competitive teams at any level of any sport. Even into the 1960s and '70s, by which time "imports" formed a large portion of CFL rosters, the number of Black faces in team pictures is small. Saskatchewan had three in 1966. Hamilton and Winnipeg each had four in 1967. The Argos had nine (out of 36 players in the team picture) in 1970.
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