By Promod Puri

A black woman trying to mimic a rightwing White racist tropes about erosion of Christian values and invasion of minorities and their festivals like Diwali was forced to step down from her position on the Vancouver Police Board.

When individuals from minority or ethnic communities express concerns about the erosion of “Canadian customs and values,” it often comes across as insincere, fake and seemingly a performance to show off their loyalty to Canada. But it’s also racist even if the person is a minority as in this case , a Black-Canadian woman.

She is Vancouver Police Board vice-chair Comfort Sakoma-Fadugba, who made several social media posts alleging that Canada’s culture and values are being undermined by minority groups.

Her Instagram stories shared on Reddit, show her raising concerns over mass immigration, the erosion of Christian values, gender transitions, “woke culture,” and the legacy of slavery.

Sakoma-Fadugba described herself as a Nigerian-Canadian mother and shared a personal experience to illustrate her views on multiculturalism in Canada.

She claimed that her son’s participation in a Diwali celebration at school made her realize that the “push for secular education wasn’t about religion” but about “erasing Christian values from the lives of our children.”

She was asked to resign from her post.

Promod Puri is a veteran journalist and author and founder of the first Indo-Canadian English language newspaper The LINK.