Sugar Sammy and Marine Le Pen

CBC Montreal: Music a bridge between identities for Meryem Saci Feeling like a stranger in your own backyard Mixed-race students fed up with classmates' racist 'jokes' For CBC Montreal Real Talk on Race series, Sugar Sammy took the time to talk race and comedy, according to CBC. He touched on growing up in Côte-des-Neiges, French politician Marine Le Pen controversial stance on multicultural societies, making fun of other races and blackface in Quebec. Comedian Sugar Sammy is known for confronting language politics in his stand-up, but the Indian-Montrealer isn't one to shy away from race either. On growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood I went from a baby to an adult in Côte-des-Neiges, so I grew up with different cultures around me and those differences is what brought us together. It was completely different from what I'd known. I think the first time I realized I was different was when I got out of that space and I went to Marianopolis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.