Anthony Morgan, a McGill law student, is filing a complaint with the Québec Human Rights Commission after filming white business students in blackface during frosh week.

The students who were filmed earlier this month attend the Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) school in Montreal, Québec.  They were at a sporting event organized by the sports and leisure committee of the University of Montreal’s HEC business school, dressed in Jamaican colours with their skin painted black.  The event was organized to encourage students to take part in extra-curricular activities.

Morgan, who was at the HEC campus at the time and filmed the group, was quoted by the CBC as saying, “They had reduced all of who I am and the history of Jamaica and culture of Jamaica to these negative connotations of weed smoking, black skin, rastas.”

To read the original CBC articles, please click on the following links:

http://www.cbc.ca/m/rich/canada/montreal/story/2011/09/21/blackface-human-rights-complaint.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/09/15/blackface-universite-montreal.html