In the City of Calgary, Alberta, there is an influx of Black immigrants, mostly coming from places like Somalia, Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia, but also from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, Antigua, and other parts of the Afro-Caribbean world. They're adding some much needed flavor to Calgary, a growing metropolis located in the heart of redneck country. As worlds collide and newcomers make their mark on the Canadian social landscape, nothing will ever be the same.
As a newcomer from the City of London, England, Master Posse definitely had his work cut out for him. The local Blacks didn't know what to make of a tall, handsome, masculine Black British man who carried himself like a king. Canada bills itself as a land of tolerance and multiculturalism, but life is tough up north for Black men and Black women. Much of their history has been erased, but they're boldly making their presence felt anew.
"Canada shall be mine for the taking," Master Posse told himself the day he flew in from London, UK, and set out to take the City of Calgary by storm. Standing six feet two inches tall, burly and muscular, with smooth chocolate skin, a full beard, and a shaved head, Master Posse was often told how much he looked like the Hollywood actor and former Rapper Ice Cube, only taller. Such remarks made the Black British brother smile.
When Master Posse arrived in the City of Calgary, he noticed that the local BDSM scene was sorely lacking. Dour, dull White guys with delusions of grandeur and a poor opinion of both women and people of color thought they ran the local BDSM scene, until Master Posse arrived. The first thing he did was show the local women that a truly strong, masculine man, respected women and conducted himself like a gentleman, without being a punk.
Master Posse, a great admirer of Hollywood icons like Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Will Smith and Lawrence Fishburne, longed for the days when Black men carried themselves as strong, intelligent and capable men. He also missed the days when Black women had much respect and love for the Black man. He blamed today's situation on weak men and bitter, angry women. The brother was determined to change things a bit, if only in his corner of the world.
For Master Posse, establishing himself in the City of Calgary didn't take much time. Educated in business management at England's very own Brunel University in his vanilla life under the bland moniker Joshua Dorval, Master Posse came at the Canadian business world with a mixture of caution and confidence. After applying to a lot of local corporations, Master Posse realized that the Canadian business world feared intelligent men of color, and didn't want them to succeed.
For all their talk of diversity and inclusion, the Canadians had this deathly fear of successful people who didn't look like them. Walking around the business centers of metropolitan Calgary, Master Posse noticed that a lot of the minority employees, the Arabs, the Latinos, the Chinese, the Filipinos and others, made a habit of kissing White ass like it was going out of style. Black folks are too blunt and honest to do that, hence why they weren't included.
Fortunately for Master Posse, he knew how to beat these not so open-minded Canadian business types at their own game. When Master Posse's parents Michel and Marie Jeanne Dorval emigrated to the City of London, U.K. from the island of Haiti, they insisted on giving their future son Joshua a very White-sounding name, because they knew that the world openly discriminated against people of color with very ethnic names.
