Rebecca Chinamasa from The Record’s Community Editorial Board has a rambling, disjointed, and sometimes, almost unreadable column in the paper today. She suggests that: “Growing community by building bridges to healing” or something. She starts out by telling us that: “After the world has experienced so many unimaginable things this year, with COVID-19 and calls to address racial issues, it is time to build bridges to heal the deep divisions and pain in our society.” What deep divisions? What pain? She doesn’t give us any examples, but I assume that if you’re a perpetual victim, or a perpetual victim sympathiser, then deep divisions and pain are some kind of constant that doesn’t need to be explained. She lets us know that she planted a garden somewhere and “This garden represents what can come out of suspending judgments, seeing differences as strengths, respecting each other and having open dialogue that seeks to truly learn from each other.” Gibberish at best. Oh, I almost forgot – she’s a student who is pursuing a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. Well, good luck with those studies, Rebecca.
