When a book isn’t enough

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For the last year, I’ve been trying to better understand the experience of people of different ethnicities—particularly African Americans. I’m not going to pretend that I’m unfamiliar with racism. Racism exists within Canadian culture, just as much as in any other. But what we read and see on the news here… It’s different.

Coming to America, I didn’t get it. Now here for a little over a year, I still don’t. Reading multiple books, some detailing recent experiences, others a little more dista...