Organization that works with homeless Edmontonians hearing more bigoted, hateful rhetoric lately
Boyle Street Community Services shared an angry and hateful voicemail it recently received to the media on Wednesday and said it is an example of what the organization describes as an increase in hateful and bigoted comments it’s received from Edmontonians in recent weeks.
The voicemail, which BSCS said it received on Nov. 11, uses coarse language and calls on Indigenous people and the BSCS itself to leave Edmonton, suggesting they go to a First Nation west of the city. The BSCS, which works to help homeless Edmontonians, said it has reported the voicemail to the Edmonton Police Service.
“We reported it to EPS as a hate incident,” said Elliott Tanti, the senior manager of communications and engagement at BSCS. “Boyle Street Community Services is disgusted by this abhorrent message. “I think it demonstrates quite clearly the discrimination that many of our Indigenous folks face in our community. But what’s particularly appalling is that this individual levelled these words at the most marginalized in our society, and they did it through an organization that exists to help people… I think that’s ultimately what’s most troubling about this voicemail that we received.
Tanti said discrimination is unfortunately something that is commonly seen in his line of work but said the brazenness of allowing such comments to be recorded in a voicemail, and the recent upswing in such sentiments, is particularly disturbing.
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