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We are a group of Canadians who are appalled that Emily Murphy is honoured on our nation's new fifty dollar bill. We are encouraging Canadians to stamp the back of the $50 with slogans pointing out that Emily Murphy was a hateful racist and prohibitionist who advocated mass sterilizations of native women.
Emily Murphy is honored on the back of the bill along with the rest of the "Famous Five" - women who are credited with helping enshrine female equality in Canada through a legal challenge called the "Person's Case."
Yet by the time of the Person's Case, Canadian women already had the vote and could be elected to Parliament. The main achievement of the Famous Five was to allow women to be appointed to Canada's Senate; but the greatest achievements of Emily Murphy were mass sterilizations and launching Canada's racist drug war.
Despite being enshrined as a symbol of women's stuggle for equality, Murphy was a leading advocate of the eugenics program which saw over 2500 Canadian women sterilized between 1928 to 1972 as "mentally unfit" to bear children. Natives made up about 2.5% of Canada's population, but accounted for 25% of those sterilized.
Murphy's intense contempt for asians and blacks was immortalized in her famous book, The Black Candle. In it, Murphy argued that marijuana was being used by asians and blacks to weaken and subjugate whites. She urged that marijuana and opium smokers should suffer longer prison sentences, more whippings, and deportation if non-white. The Black Candle was a bestseller, and led directly to criminalization of marijuana in Canada in 1923.
In her book, Murphy gleefully quotes cops saying how "marijuana addicts" become "raving maniacs" who will attack and kill without provocation, "using the most savage methods of cruelty." She describes Chinese people as "black-haired beasts in our human jungle," with a "desire to injure the bright-browed races of the world."
Murphy was also terrified of blacks, claiming that they also seek to enslave whites with dope, and that "one of their greatest writers has boasted how ultimately they will control the white men."
Prime Minister Mackenzie King, featured on the front of the $50, also played a major role in setting up pot prohibition in Canada. As Labour Minister, King wrote a very influential report called The Need for the Suppression of Opium Traffic in Canada, based on Murphy's early writings and sensationalist newspaper stories depicting the corruption of white women by Chinese. King's report resulted in the passing of Canada's first drug law, the Opium Narcotic Act of 1908. King became Prime Minister in 1921, and banned marijuana two years later.
King also shared in Murphy's racism, infamously refusing to allow most refugee Jews into Canada during WWII, even though they were fleeing German genocide. The phrase "None is too many" referred to how many Jewish immigrants King said Canada should accept.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
We urge all interested Canadians to get a stamp made so you can stamp the back of the new $50 bills. A stamp that is two inches wide and 3/4 of an inch high is a perfect size to fit on the blank spaces on the back of the bill.
Click here to get a series of designs in jpg format. You can provide ay one of these designs to any stampmaker and get stamps made for under $20 each.
We have also prepared a number of stamps ourselves, which we will provide for free if you can convince us that the stamp will be properly used. Just send us an email to stampoutmurphy@yahoo.ca and we'll see if we can help you out. We are hoping to find volunteers who work in a Money Mart or another job where they handle many $50 bills. There's about one million of these disgraceful bills in print and we need your help to stamp them all!
Also, please help us to promote our campaign by linking to our site. You can find our banner linked online here. Please give our banner some free space on your site!
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