Race gets complicated around here

There were half a dozen security guards in the drugstore/grocery store ("Shoppers Drug Mart") this evening. A white customer asked a Black security guard why there were so many, "have things been really crazy?" The security guard lowered his voice and said "yes! There's been so many of them coming in from the reserves because of all the fires."

(Translation: the horrible forest fires this summer have displaced many Indigenous People from their reserves -- or for you US SWeeps, many "Native Americans" have been displaced from their "reservations" -- to my city,) Whether this actually has increased shoplifting or vandalism to the point that the store needed to resemble a police station -- or whether that's just something other people, of various colours, think, I cannot say. 🥺