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When Kelly Pocha teed off on a group of men behind her at a Lethbridge Denny’s, the world wasn’t watching.

It was an isolated incident of harsh, racist language, among so many other seemingly isolated incidents.

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But they aren’t as isolated as we’d like to think.

Pocha’s diner rant was captured on video and shared out to the world at large, the latest example of an angry white person talking down to people of an ethnic minority, making herself look hateful and stupid in the process, and tarring the rest of Alberta and Canada in the process.

That’s not to say the rest of Alberta and Canada don’t have an issue with racism, but the views espoused by the likes of this woman and others, are not in the majority.

But it’s this incident, like others before it, that is a stark reminder for us all.

It’s a reminder of the harassment that certain segments of the population regularly face.

It’s also a good reminder that we as a society still have a long way to go in dealing with this kind of hate.