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 segariniRoxanne Tellier – The End of History?
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags #Brexit, 1984., Aldous Huxley, Aleppo, Bob Segarini, Brave New World, DBAWIS, Donald Trump, End of History, George Orwell, Hydro One, Neil Postman, Nigeria, Ontario, post capitalism, Roxanne Tellier, Syria.Iraq, terrorism, trust, Turkey, Vladimir Putin, Zika on November 27, 2016 by segariniWhen we’re confused by where we are, it’s important to look at where we’ve been.
Confusion, uncertainty, masked as fear, pride, or hubris, reigns in all of us in these last days of 2016. What a year! I’m tempted to ride out the last bit hiding under my bed with my cats.