Brother Vukoni,
I am not on Mulindwa's mailing list; and I have just seen your reply to his objection to my placing the deceased Harrison Yiga, in Jane & Finch.
For your clarity, Jane & Finch is the 'black neighbourhood' of Toronto; not too old, but originally habited by our people from Jamaica who in the early 60's were shipped into Canada, like Philippinos today, to act as maids and babysitters for the white middle class here. But Jane & Finch has since become a vibrant multi-racial part of Toronto.
The children of these nannies, many years later when they joined their mothers here became associated with 'crime and violence'.
In the minds of many, including our black high-fliers, Jane & Finch still has the label of a violent place, i.e. racist code for 'a place for blacks'.
The fact is that Jane & Finch is neighbor to York University, the fastest expanding University in Canada that boasts of, the most prestigious Law School in the country, a gem of a Science Library, an impressive aerospace engineering department, a marvelous computer science Department etc....
Right in the centre of Jane & Finch Ugandan, Ghanaian etc... medical doctors have set up state of the art medical facilities. Plans are under-way to link the whole area to the grid of the Metropolitan Rapid Transit. The place is developing in leaps and bounds.
Opting for other enclaves - Jewish, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese etc... maybe Mulindwa is too high to think of living in a neighborhood like Jane & Finch. But many of us have no qualms about living with our own.
Now the deceased, Harrison Yiga was reported to have died in North York, a general area that also includes Jane & Finch.
Now I realize that he actually died in Don Mills, an area that is adjacent to Jane & Finch, and was the catchment place for most Somalis when they first arrived here in waves.
As far as I am concerned it matters less whether one dies among Jamaicans and Ghanaians in Jane & Finch , in Don Mills among Somalis, in Bathurst & Lawrence among Jews, in Keel among Ukrainians, in a Greek, a Chinese or whatever neighborhood.
It is so unfair, instead of expressing our condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased, to instead use such a sad occasion for grandstanding.
" I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins." Philosopher Antony Flew 1922 - .
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