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There is little doubt I would be accused of all sorts of nasty things, including a racist, if I were to go on national public television and call Vicky Mochama “a young crying black girl.”

So, I won’t, although she is young, and she is black, and none of this should matter. Except it does in this case.

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Who is Vicky Mochama, you ask?

She will likely be troubled you don’t know.

According to the Toronto Star, where her column appears every second Thursday, Vicky Mochama is co-host of the podcast, Safe Space, and writes a tri-weekly column for the Metro News that “mixes politics, news and humour.”

She recently appeared on CBC TV’s Sunday Scrum where, with the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson and the Ottawa Citizen’s Susan Riley, they were discussing People of the Year.

Deep into the segment, Ibbitson brought up Lindsay Shepherd as a 2017 newsmaker, she being the 23-year-old teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier who garnered a lot of headlines when she went public with the roughhousing she got from the university’s hierarchy over her use of a TV Ontario video to illustrate the controversy over gender-neutral pronouns.