Toronto is a city that prides itself on safety, diversity, and the ability to gather without fear. But on Saturday night, during the Salsa on St. Clair festival, that sense of ease was shattered. Multiple people were shot. Two died at the scene. Police urged the public to avoid the area as officers secured the intersection and searched for answers.
The tragedy is real. The grief is real. But what worries me even more is what this event reveals about the cultural climate we’ve been drifting toward for years — a climate where violence no longer shocks us the way it should.
Toronto remains a relatively safe city by North American standards and the Salsa shooting may have been Protestant gunplay for all we know.
But diversity is not a strength. It’s the reason why we aren’t “shocked” in our balkanized metropolis.
Most of Toronto’s gun crime is committed by “racialized” communities who don’t play by our rules.
The usual suspects make the news often enough to end anyone’s shock.
So long as they aren’t shooting up your tribe or mine ain’t nobody gonna care.
Stay safe re-read “The Talk”.
