Lise Ravary: Are francophone Quebecers racist?
Let me begin by sharing with you what a lower-middle-class francophone Québécois girl was taught about race in the 1960s and ’70s.
I was raised in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, where I lived until 1975.
My mother was born in Scotstown, near Lac-Mégantic, but grew up in the Viauville neighbourhood of Montreal in a poor household where violence was a daily scourge.
My paternal grandfather farmed in St-Télésphore, near the Ontario border. When my dad was five, the
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