Saving The Males
November 15th, 2007 Andrew CashSaving the males
Poverty piece of the puzzle gets lost amid tears in Alwy Al Nadhir shooting
By Andrew Cash
Standing with about 100 others at a vigil (November 7) at the very spot in Riverdale Park where teenager Alwy Al Nadhir was shot and killed by police Halloween night, I’m aware that I’m one of only a handful of white people.
That fact says a lot about the disconnect between the neighbourhoods clustered around the park, mostly middle-class and white, and those who knew Al Nadhir, mostly poor and black.
And yet, as I listen to a rep from the Black Action Defence Committee frame his death in racial terms, I’m thinking he’s got it only partly right. For here at this hastily organized vigil called Saved the Males, a Portuguese kid speaks up saying the cops are going after his community, too.