Douglas Todd: When racism intersects with mental illness everyone's tested

One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
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