My name is Karen Song Lee, and I'm a young Chinese-Canadian woman living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I've lived in the Confederation of Canada for about seven years now. I moved there in the summer of 2004 at the age of twenty to attend Carleton University. It's where I eventually earned my MBA. Since then I've become a Canadian citizen, and I currently work for the Ottawa Department of Public Works. Life is okay, I guess. I am happily married to a big and tall, handsome Black man named Jericho Cartier. He's of Haitian descent and hails from Montreal, Quebec. We're the proud parents of two sons and a daughter.
Being a Chinese woman in the City of Ottawa isn't easy. Especially since this is one of the most racist cities in the continent of North America. I kind of stand out here, and not just because at five-foot-eleven, I'm tall for an Asian gal. Also, I'm not exactly skinny. I'm a big gal no matter what I do. My mentality makes me an oddball here too. I refuse to play the game set before me by the bigoted and divisive Powers That Be. The ethnic minorities here, whether Black, Indian, Arab or Asian, tend to be hostile to each other. The fools don't realize it's the xenophobic Euro-Canadians who make them suffer collectively. I mean, they discriminate against all of us when it comes to jobs, education, housing and other essentials of Canadian society.
Unfortunately, the dumb minority groups in the Confederation of Canada refuse to see the light and unite against a common enemy. My fellow Asians are the worst. I swear so many of them spend their time trying so damn hard to be White. They don't realize that they'll always be foreigners in the Confederation of Canada. No matter how educated they are or how much they suck up to White people. The racism of the Canadian government and its various institutions was obvious to me the moment I came here from the Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. The game that White men and White women play with minorities in Canada is painfully obvious to me.
I've met White guys who say negative stuff about Arabs while hanging out with Black guys, and those same White guys say negative stuff about Black guys in the presence of Arab guys. They act like they're cool with the different minority groups while secretly hating them. They sow discord among the minorities to prevent them from uniting against the covert racism of Whitey. It's a clever game, now apply that on a global scale and you will understand why Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America dominate the world. Fortunately, I wasn't raised to be a fool. Nor do I let dumb asses convince me that two plus two equals five. In the City of Ottawa, I focused on my studies for my first couple years and did little else. I just worked odd jobs to pay my rent, that's about it.
While hanging out with my friend Nancy Chang in the City of Montreal, Province of Quebec, I was introduced to a young Black man destined to change my life forever. Jericho Cartier. Six feet two inches tall, muscular and tough-looking. Black as midnight, with deep, soulful brown eyes. One of the top students in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University in the City of Montreal, Quebec. The son of proud Haitian immigrants, Jericho was sexy, smart and ambitious. He was a good friend of Nancy's, who had known him since their days at Saint Mathieu Catholic High School in Montreal-Nord. Jericho was something else, folks. When our eyes met, I felt something I had never felt before. I can barely describe it. I can only call it chemistry.
Now, I've met handsome men of all hues. I really didn't discriminate in who I dated. I mainly dated Chinese guys and Japanese guys ( those Japanese guys who weren't stuck up and didn't mind dating a Chinese lady) but occasionally I dated Mexican guys and Indian guys. I had never dated a Black man before. Nancy saw the way I looked at Jericho and, being the annoying brat that she is, she played matchmaker. The following night, Jericho and I went to the movies. A total set-up by Nancy, who was supposed to join us but cancelled at the last minute, leaving us alone in the movie theatre. The movie was followed by a quick bite at a nice French restaurant in Montreal-Nord, and just like that, I was smitten with Jericho. As we dined inside the restaurant, I got to know him a bit better. He was really smart, sexy and friendly. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, he had traveled many places including the United States of America, France, the Caribbean, Brazil and to my immense surprise, Southern China. How about that?