Black History Month - February 2012
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| Photo: C. Ferguson |
The Journey that I have travelled over the past seventy-six
years has brought me enormous knowledge and wisdom. The developing years of my
childhood with my parents, siblings, my extended family and community has
instilled in me the precious value for honour and respect of human lives.
These forty-four years of living in Toronto, Canada, have caused
me to be involved in many different struggles, including the criminal justice
system, immigration, public housing, police community relationship, racial
profiling and many other issues of concern to the Afro-Canadian community, and
to society in general.
One of the first lessons I have learned that was very clear
to me, was that a community must be organized if that community hopes to
achieve and sustain progress, justice, and respect.
These seventy-six years have given me unlimited knowledge of
my community and it’s people. Many persons living and deceased have given years
of their lives for the betterment of our
children and community; the continuation of this processes now the task of the growing
youth leadership in which I have tremendous confidence.
My hope is that they will call upon the knowledge,
experience and wisdom of those of us who have traveled the path of leadership.
By Dudley Laws
Funeral of Dudley Laws
1935-2011
Photo: C. Ferguson
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