The Official Toronto Discussion Thread

[MikelArteta]

I've said this before, but another problem is our lack of black universities or even fraternities. We have nobody pushing us to achieve greatness from within. We are forced to look south to our American cousins and often over compensate due to feeling inferior, when in actuality, we're pretty much the same. But there less and less examples of black excellence in this country to look up to. And if I say this in a mainstream setting, I'll get called out for making it only about black people...Thats another issue here. We try to talk about issues within the black community, and it turns into "why does everything have to be color". When we don't talk about it, they look at us and tell us to handle the issues amongst our people. Its a sham and a shame...

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I mean really if you think of it, beside churches, ethnic food stores, barbershops/hair salons can you name 5 prominent black businesses in the city?

 

[MikelArteta]

I feel like Brandon Gonez who used to be on CP24 is doing good work. He's like one of the few Canadian black men in the media to flip the script and launch a platform. I do agree we need more stuff like that because we're very underrepresented in the media and most representation is usually in a negative light.

Forgot about Brandon. Dude was so underused at cp24 he should have been hosting 1 hour specials instead they had him as a reporter.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

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I mean really if you think of it, beside churches, ethnic food stores, barbershops/hair salons can you name 5 prominent black businesses in the city?

That investment firm run by that Jamaican Bay Street guy

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Wes Hall (businessman) - Wikipedia

 

[MikelArteta]

Wes Hall (businessman) - Wikipedia

married to a pawg

can you name any others?

btw even his company

https://www.kingsdaleadvisors.com/team

you could pull up a jewish investment firm and everyone there is jewish or a chinese all chinese but for blacks nah

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

married to a pawg

can you name any others?

 

[President Sakora]

Hes pakistani

ohhhhhhhh aight.

 

[President Sakora]

Too bad it didn't give him an allergic reaction and send him to the same underfunded hospitals he expects the rest of us to rely on

that's god talking to him, interestingly enough, a bee won't fly into your mouth unless your giving off plant smells like say cannabis....

 

[Instant Classic]

married to a pawg

can you name any others?

btw even his company

https://www.kingsdaleadvisors.com/team

you could pull up a jewish investment firm and everyone there is jewish or a chinese all chinese but for blacks nah

I never understood that because you can find other groups leveling up their own, but for us it's usually everybody's invited and barely any black people. It seems to be a common theme where you see a black person make it big, and then their team is filled with mostly non black.

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[jdubnyce]

Just Friday firecrackers

 

[85 East]

Heard mad cops not too long ago, but thats usual. I'm at Main and Kingston though so like 10 min drive away

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

That investment firm run by that Jamaican Bay Street guy

Michael Lee Chin - Mandeville

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

That imam gave me my shahada the day before his brother was killed and I went to the funeral to show respect. Then the shooting happened

Ain't you from ATL? Why did you move to Toronto breh?

 

[Prynce]

Ain't you from ATL? Why did you move to Toronto breh?

I didn’t move to Toronto. My family is Somali and most of them live in Toronto. Just here visiting