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Originally posted by Taualumna
Waitaminute....don't larger US cities have cultural enclaves like Toronto? I do remember seeing a Little Italy, as well as historically Jewish neighbourhoods, for example, in New York.
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Ever heard of Bensonhurst, New York? It's a largely Italian neighborhood in the suburbs. A kid -- a Black kid -- named Yusuf Hawkins was walking through Bensonhurst one night with some friends. He was checking out a used car that was for sale. Some idiots were upset that one of their girlfriends had invited some black people to her birthday party. They thought that Hawkins and his friends were on their way to the party. In no time, about 30 folks swarmed Hawkins and his friends, and beat them with baseball bats. Hawkins was killed.
I know that this might be a totally naive question, but has something like that happened in Canada in recent memory? Someone being killed for being black (or brown or yellow) in a white neighborhood?
ETA - I'm not trying to shed a bad light on Italians or residents of New York. I told this story just to relate a point.
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