Canadian NDP (left) candidate drops out of race after audio clip surfaces where she says 'I want to be a Black woman'

"My secret is that I want to be a Black woman," she is heard saying in the audio clip posted by the PC Party.

In another part of the clip she says "I want to be able to share my ideas without the barrier of looking the way I do."

In a Facebook post Wednesday, Zavitz said she made the remark during an exercise that "was intended to unpack our biases" and offered an apology.

"I made a comment that I understand was harmful. I apologize unequivocally for that remark and any harm it has caused," Zavitz wrote. "As a professor of Sociology and Women's Studies I have made it my entire life's work to amplify the voices of marginalized communities."

https://www.cp24.com/ontario-election-2025/2025/02/20/ontario-ndp-candidate-drops-out-of-race-after-audio-clip-surfaces-where-she-says-i-want-to-be-a-black-woman/

Amanda Zavitz, the NDP candidate in Elgin-Middlesex-London, claims that she wants to be a Black woman so that she can gain the lived experiences of poverty, addiction, and alcoholism.

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— Ontario PC Press (@PCPressOffice) February 19, 2025

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