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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
Canadians and Europeans have no standing to criticize social injustices in the 19th century USA, and up until around wwii.
At a time when the feds were establishing colleges for black citizens in the 1880s , the brits were machine gunning Kenyans and the Belgians were collecting severed Congolese hands
Canada was part of the imperial British state until 1947 ( the firsts year independents Canadian citizenship existed)
After 1945, it’s a different picture. Jim Crow was an abomination
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Canada has more or less been its own entity since 1867 with gradual levels of autonomy granted in stages until 1982 when they had full sovereignty.