R | 1h 37m | Sports, Documentary | July 14, 2023
“Black Ice” is a Canadian documentary, intended as a wake-up call to Canada about Canada’s black and indigenous Canadians in Canadian hockey.
For Canadians, it’ll be a rather shocking topic. As Americans, while not exactly “ho-hum,” the subject matter is not nearly as much of a gut-punch to us, due to our having been down this road so many times before.
Sarah Nurse of Canada’s national women’s hockey team won an Olympic gold medal playing for Canada at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, setting records for most assists (13) and points (18) in a single tournament in “Black Ice.” (Roadside Attractions)
From the pre-Civil War South through Jim Crow and well into the 1960s, this sort of thing was nearly constant in America: “Black men aren’t intelligent enough to play quarterback,” “Black people can’t swim,” “Can’t play golf,” and so on. America’s fresh out of things black folks can’t be, but Canada is still learning….
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