“我们希望尽可能多地放大尽可能多的声音”：大西洋加拿大的黑色经验的黑色股票

标记2月1日的黑人历史的开始，Blacklantic, a new Black podcast and media platform out of Atlantic Canada, officially launched.

“We’re primarily a Black Atlantic centric podcast, website, and media channel through which we post on our social media channels with the goal of bringing unheard Black and POC voices to the world — unheard Atlantic voices,” said Clinton Davis, a co-creator and podcast co-host.

戴维斯和共同创造者和共同主持的希拉里·勒布朗斯共同努力超过一年的主机团队的一部分黑色在玛丽亚里播客，它是基于新的不伦瑞克斯并创建的Fidel Franco。

LeBlanc joined Black in the Maritimes about a year after Davis. In a joint interview with the Examiner, they laugh at how despite their backgrounds being “quite the opposite,” they’ve still come to similar perspective and viewpoints with respect to the Black experience — and particularly the Black experience of Black Canadians living in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada.

对于初学者来说，勒布朗姆，现在住在多伦多，诞生于新的布伦瑞克的白色蒙古顿。戴维斯居住在蒙克顿，在安大略省多伦多出生并筹集。

Clinton Davis

戴维斯的父亲是牙买加，他的母亲来自裴。戴维斯说，当他在成长时他去了岛屿。

“I came to PEI every year of my life, and that was great,” Davis said. “And growing up in Toronto I never really experienced direct, overt kind of obvious racism. When I started visiting New Brunswick when my parents moved here in 1999, I was shocked by the amount of racism I encountered.”

戴维斯描述了在新的布鲁尼克斯出来的种族主义，并进入波浪。在一年三次访问父母后，他于2009年搬到蒙克顿，并表示他认为这座城市和省变得更加多样化，种子变得更加多样化。

“那么，在2017年，我开始再次注意到种族主义的增加，它开始坐在我身边，”他说。“我开始在社交[媒体]和那里慢慢地讲话，并挑战在线种族主义者的挑战。”

Davis said he and his wife experienced racist online harassment through the business they co-owned. Through that same business, he said他和他的妻子被欺骗了由员工曾经缺失过的政府机构工作。当它变成了国家新闻, that’s when Davis said he was approached by Franco to speak about it as a guest on Black in the Maritimes.

“我从来没有听说过的黑色，我只是认为这正是这个省需要的，恰好沿着我已经想要做的事情，”他说。“所以我真的追求这一点，并希望成为团队的一部分，加入它并帮助它爆炸。”

Hillary LeBlanc

Growing up in Moncton, Hillary LeBlanc said she always normalized the type of racism that stood out for Clinton Davis when he moved to New Brunswick from Toronto. The contrast didn’t become apparent to her until she moved to Toronto and felt a greater sense of acceptance as a Black person among a more diverse population of Black people.

“I think it was one of the first times I had, while working at Shoppers Drug Mart, had another Black person look at me and like nod just to acknowledge my existence,” she said. “That feeling of comradery was nothing I had ever experienced in 23 years in New Brunswick. And so that to me was moving.”

“I talked about it several times, about being one of only five Black kids in my school at a time was really isolating and lonely. And finally accepting my identity as a Black person and trying to stop assimilating as a white person. I realized that there was no representation in the media in New Brunswick, [or] in the people I surrounded myself with.”

LeBlanc said she finds her “bigger passion” in writing and has been blogging since she was 12-years-old. In addition to podcast hosting, she contributed a系列博客where she wrote candidly about her lived experience and a wide range of topics. Those blogs have since migrated to Blacklantic.ca.

Blacklantic

LeBlanc said moving to Toronto helped her see how media representation was really affecting Black people in a positive way.

“And so I really wanted to be a part of that. And so when I was approached to be on Black in the Maritimes I said yes, and I really just wanted to continue working in that sphere and doing that,” said LeBlanc.

Davis agreed.

“There isn’t a lot of coverage that takes place about the Black experience in Atlantic Canada,” said Davis. “If there is, it only tends to be centered around race or race issues, or when something bad happens,” he said. “So we are trying to let Atlantic Canadians know that Black people are just people with different viewpoints and opinions, and not always the same opinions.”

Blacklantic还通过Savannah Thomas，来自Fredericton的黑色作家撰写的博客，从弗雷德里克顿发表讲话并谈论种族问题。

On the第一集在Blacklanctic，Davis和Leblanc介绍了新平台，然后讨论了围绕着渥太华的自由驾驶开始的新闻，这是黑人历史月初，以及即将到来的虚拟黑色历史月面板从新的不伦瑞克的“一个大白人人口统计“勒布兰克说她需要个人进攻。

“While there’s no immediate paycheque every week for doing this, we’re happy to engage in the conversations, we’re happy to have opportunities with CBC and other partners, impacting change within even the school districts, and just to be able to talk to other people about their experiences,” LeBlanc said.

“Our endeavour is to show that Black people tend to experience racism, but every other experience they have is different and unique, and we’re all different people. You cannot speak to one person and get “the” Black Experience, and that’s why we want to amplify as many voices as we can.”

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