Mickey191-

You've got the story correct and I believe that School Superintendent Levesque is doing the right thing. What's missing in this snippit of the story is five years of cultural interaction between a growing Somali community and the residents of a majority French-Canadian small city.

At one point a previous mayor had the nerve to request the Somali elders that further immifration of Somalies should be discouraged because "it" was becoming a problem. There were mass demonstrations in support of the Somali community and the mayor later aplogized for any harm that his letter might have caused.

It's a complex situation that doesn't lend itself to comparative news clips, and there probably are a few Somalies that at this point are bitter and suspicious.

What part of the phrase "hate crime" don't you undertand?

Charley Noble