As we approach the upcoming peaceful demonstration on April 11th, 2025, one of the concerns we'll be focusing on is the lack of involvement thus far from law enforcement regarding the missing black youths in Ontario.
As of today, March 15th, 2025, there has been no documentation of missing black youths in Ontario listed on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) website.
Although to date, three missing black teens have been missing from the Toronto area since early March, the RCMP has not added 16-year-old T'Asia, 15-year-old Starlyn, or 14-year-old Taylanie to their database of missing children.
https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/results-resultats.jsf?q=MPC&lang=en
T'Asia, Starlyn, and Taylanie are documented as missing children on the Missing Children Society of Canada's website; however, the RCMP has failed to add these 3 missing black youths to their database; while on the other hand, the people wanted for crimes they've committed, lists a majority of black people.
This statistic demonstrates where the priorities of law enforcement lie when it comes to black people in Ontario.
While those who break the law should be brought to justice, this does not constitute the fact that law enforcement has a higher interest in capturing the wanted black individuals than they do in resolving the rapid rate at which our black youth are going missing in Ontario.
While many of the missing black teens have been removed from the Missing Children Society of Canada's database, there have never been any updates provided to the public as to when or how they were found. The public has yet to be notified that there's an epidemic of black youths missing at such a rapid rate in Ontario since October of 2024.
Systemic racism is clearly at play here, which can no longer be ignored. The peaceful demonstration intends to discuss this matter at our peaceful demonstration and petition for the implementation of anti-black laws to provide the black community protection through the Human Rights Act of Ontario.
It is time that those who foster and perpetuate systemic racism in Ontario be held accountable and that the system start working for the black community rather than against us.
As per the late, great Martin Luther King Jr, "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, religion and education will have to do that, but it can restrain him from lynching me and I think that's important also. And so that while legislation may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men."
Sign and share this petition and join us on April 11th, 2025, at the Legislative Assembly Grounds of Ontario, as we take that first step to changing the habits of men in Ontario!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTthoC8xgpE