When I was a kid, growing up in Alberta, I encountered precisely two black families. One family, that ran a boarding house near my school, had a little girl about my age. When I went to L’Academie Assomption, which was a private girl’s school, the daughters of football player Rollie Miles were the only students of colour.
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Roxanne Tellier – This Week in Racism!
Posted in Books, life, Opinion, politics, Review, Television with tags ABC News, Alberta, alien race, American football teams, ‘prejudice, Canada, DBAWIS, Edmonton, ethnicity, Globe And Mail, Hitler, Holocaust, Jan Wong, Jewish, master race, Maus, Montreal, Nazi, Neil Postman, old stock, pure laine, Quebec bashing, Quebecois, racial purity, racism, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The View, Twitter, us vs them, Whoopi Goldberg on February 6, 2022 by segariniPat Blythe – Diversions, Julian Taylor Band, New Drums …and Music!
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Avalanche, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Desert Star, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drumland, Eye Weekly, GingerPennies, Globe And Mail, Gretsch, Gretsch Catalina Club, Horseshoe Tavern, JTB, Julian Taylor, Julian Taylor Band, Lenny Stoute, Metro and Cashbox Canada Magazine, Mike Pellarin, Music Express, ONES, Pat Blythe, Sabian, The Great Hall, Toronto Star on April 3, 2019 by segariniIt’s Tuesday yet again. Apparently it repeats itself every six days. Bugger! This means it’s column writing day and I am not remotely focused on the task at hand. This could mean a ridiculously lengthy dissertation or stupidly short piece of nonsense. We’ll see where this one goes??
JAIMIE VERNON – TO THE BOOKMOBILE
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Last week I wrote about working on Skip Prokop’s upcoming biography project and how we’re attempting to raise funds to get the thing written and published. https://kapipal.com/projects/skip-prokop-biography-project/