Living in rural Sask., I thought of myself as white with brown skin. A nationwide tragedy shook me awake

Although Miguel Fenrich has a Sudanese father, he didn t know him and grew up with his white family members in rural Saskatchewan. Fenrich saw himself as white — just with brown skin. At 15, after a trial that grappled with discrimination in the legal system and province he lived in, he was forced to confront his desire to be like everyone else around him

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Living in rural Sask., I thought of myself as white with brown skin. A nationwide tragedy shook me awake

Although Miguel Fenrich has a Sudanese father, he didn t know him and grew up with his white family members in rural Saskatchewan. Fenrich saw himself as white — just with brown skin. At 15, after a trial that grappled with discrimination in the legal system and province he lived in, he was forced to confront his desire to be like everyone else around him

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