Son Jeremy Dept: Today, in this town of 9,000 a couple of hours from Halifax, a mere allusion to the name triggers a visceral reaction among the few hundred black residents: “To us, even just ‘The Hill' is exactly like saying the N-word,” says Henderson Paris, bristling as he drives among the neighbourhood's well-kept wooden houses, according to The Globe and Mail. Jeremy recovered and eventually moved to Bermuda. Hennie Paris, as the father is known around town, was motivated to start an annual anti-racism run and eventually become a town councillor and to many of their white neighbours, though, Vale Road was just “Nigger Hill.” Mr. Paris also recalls being on the production line of the local Michelin Tires plant in January, 1990, when his son, Jeremy, was badly beaten at a college in nearby Stellarton. About 100 of the boy's white peers watched while another student beat him, yelling slurs. As
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