I'm Indigenous Canadian and I'm a big brown long haired native guy .... you can't get any more obviously racialized a person as me.

I'm also a lifelong NDP supporter ... I've been part of the party since I started actively voting just over 30 years ago and I even joined in election campaigns for the party in my region over the years.

And from those experiences .... we can't fool ourselves of what the dynamics of the country still are. You are right we should think the way you describe ... that is what we should aspire to ... but the reality is that that kind of mentality will only occur in decades or centuries, it won't change any time soon or within our lifetime. I would love for it change sooner rather than later but that isn't realistic.

One of the troubling things I noticed in the NDP was in union and worker supporters .... as a group most workers and unions will support a party like the NDP ... but as individuals they are more than likely to vote for conservative. They support socialist ideals as workers and conservative beliefs at home.

Which is why I honestly believe that at this point in history, we need a plain old older white male to lead the party .... if Jack Layton had survived, we would have probably had him as Prime Minister at this point ... it's so sad that he left us before he had a chance to do anything.