Dumb and offensive attention-seeking antics almost two decades ago don't cancel out the man Justin Trudeau has become —and the kind of prime minister he has been to all Canadians.
I am a Pakistani—Canadian, and I am part of a visible minority. My ancestry is from a place where skin colors are darker and more brown in tone; a place where turbans are worn, exactly like the one that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is wearing in the now-infamous photo from 2001. By all accounts, I should be offended by the photos, as much as anybody. At least that's what I'm hearing from everybody.
So when those photos emerged Justin Trudeau wearing brown and black paint on his face, as part of an over-the-top costume, we just caught a glimpse of one of those moments in which he was over-eager to stand out in a party full of costumes, and be the center of attention - and went, by his own admission, an an extra mile too far to get it.
People make mistakes. And in this case, for a Prime Minister, who is in the middle of an election campaign, those mistakes can be irrecoverably damaging, especially given how powerful and pervasive racist tropes can be, which have been known to infect even otherwise well-meaning people and taint their legacies.
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