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Roxanne Tellier –  This Week in Racism!

Posted in Books, life, Opinion, politics, Review, Television with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2022 by segarini

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 – The End of History?

Posted in Opinion, Review with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2016 by segarini

Roxanne

When 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.

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