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    SkrilzzzzHuda Hassan
    12/06/14 12:04pm

    I don't understand what your article is about. Are you trying to lay blame for the murders of your family members?

    I work in a Scarborough high school. I know all too much about youth violence. In Toronto, you are shot because you are in the drug trade. Period. So were your family members in gangs, selling drugs? Who do you blame for that?

    There are many young black males in my school who aren't in the drug trade. Many who come from difficult home lives, single-parent homes, who have learning disabilities, who have been victims of domestic violence, who are recent immigrants, and those who have really effed up parents. These boys chose to do the right thing. They choose part-time work at McDonalds, or the movie theatre, or at Scarborough Town Centre, as opposed to selling drugs, so I refuse to buy into pitying gang members in my community.

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      sizor_sisterSkrilzzzz
      12/06/14 12:28pm

      "And then there is the additional layer of the black male experience in the West and the navigation of institutional racism—a foreign concept for newcomer Africans settling in the West."

      Is it news to you that young Black men often face intense job and opportunity discrimination and that often one of the few options they have to try to make money or gain some dignity is to engage in illegal activities? No one is asking you to "pity" them nor do they want your "pity." They're asking you recognize that society treats certain people (like young Black men) unjustly and unfairly which sometimes causes them to engage in behavior that might get them killed.

      Some of the heartlessness I see around here is mind numbing.

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      whatamigonnadowithagunrackSkrilzzzz
      12/06/14 12:33pm

      Can your silly Ford-nation bootstraps ideal. You sound like an uneducated asshole.

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    sizor_sisterHuda Hassan
    12/06/14 12:17pm

    إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎

    Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un ya ukhti

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      __kathHuda Hassan
      12/06/14 12:01pm

      Absolutely beautiful.

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        bambinoitalianoHuda Hassan
        12/06/14 1:09pm

        For whatever reason that people migrate, whether it's economical or political reasons, the challenge is always assimilation. Canada or US or Australia or Europe are not utopias. There are too many misconception about Western countries. In many aspects it seems better than many countries but it's not exclusion to many issues and challenges than the home countries that these migrants come from. Just like families. It looks fine and dandy on the outset until you marry into it, only you will face with a different set of challenges you never have to deal with before. With the exception of political asylum where your lives are immediate danger, migrating to another country to seek a new life is not a decision that should be taken lightly. There are many aspects of the society one needs to consider. Language , cultural, customs and habits even in a metropolitan city like Toronto are a lot more different from the locals once home countries.

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          Str8BananaPantsHuda Hassan
          12/06/14 1:34pm

          A very sad but beautiful story.

          Did you ever find out what he needed the camera for?

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            Huda HassanStr8BananaPants
            12/06/14 5:40pm

            Sadly, no.

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            Str8BananaPantsHuda Hassan
            12/06/14 7:50pm

            I'm sorry.

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          KiraHuda Hassan
          12/07/14 2:27am

          I am sorry for your families loss & for having to endure the new trama that is baring witness to the justice system. As the family of a homicide victim you have no one to prepare you, speak for you or give voice to your loss.

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