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Quoting Claudia Melrose <[log in to unmask]>:
Here is Barack Obama's contact:
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> Would someone please send this message to Barack Obama? He needs to
> hear this and perhaps he can lend the weight of his position,
> caring and reputation to say nothing of his history organizing in
> Chicago. A very moving and sad sad story. Thank you Emliie, for
> sending this out to all of us. If someone does know how to contact
> Barack and does so, please let me know.
> Claudia
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> From: Emilie Ngo Nguidjol <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:37 pm
> Subject: fwd: Remember Amadou Cisse
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>> Paix a son ame.--Emilie (Amadou CISSE was a Senegalese grad Student
>> at U of C)Remember Amadou Cisse, fight urban crimeNovember 20, 2007
>> Amadou Cisse is not a statistic.
>>
>> Amadou was shot and killed on the Hyde Park campus of the University
>> of Chicago early Monday morning. This was just weeks after he had
>> successfully defended his Ph.D thesis in Chemistry at the top-rated
>> university.
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>> Amadou started life with little advantage. He was raised in a modest
>> home in Senegal, Africa, exacerbated all the more by his father's
>> early death. But Amadou invested his hopes in the most precious gift
>> God had afforded him, his mind. He won a scholarship worlds away to a
>> U.S high school, went onto college and earned degrees in chemistry,
>> physics and mathematics.The Chicago Tribune reported that "At the U.
>> of C., Cisse was known as much for his hard work as his passion for
>> his religion, Islam" ("U. of C. reels from hour of violence," Page 1,
>> Nov. 20).
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>> During his lifetime and despite all odds, Cisse did his family proud,
>> Africa proud and Islam proud - he was a direct product of all three.
>>
>> He also did America proud - he was also a direct product of America.
>>
>> Amadou was a minority three times over. He was black, Muslim and an
>> immigrant. In a climate where each of those are often demonized,
>> politicized, or rendered suspicious, he may have been prejudged by the
>> ugly half of America.
>>
>> But prejudice is not the world he saw in America. He saw only
>> opportunity, just as the beautiful part of America had seen in him.
>>
>> As we constantly hear the claptrap about the potential radicalization
>> of Muslim youth, or witness the subtle vilification of Black youth or
>> dark-skinned immigrants, we see in Amadou a more accurate
>> representation of the real values a young Black Muslim immigrant might
>> typically represent: intelligence, responsibility, aspiration -- and
>> vulnerability. This is equally likely whether a PhD from the U. of C.
>> or a cab driver.
>>
>> His achievements were a reminder to all of us of the value of most who
>> come to our shores: not a threat, but an asset.
>>
>> Amadou's story is the best and worst of what we have to offer. In our
>> top institutions, we afforded Amadou a ticket to the top. And in our
>> unsafe inner-city streets, we afforded him his demise.
>>
>> Fighting urban crime and cleaning up our streets is not just the
>> police force's job; it is our collective responsibility. We cannot sit
>> idly by as our top treasure ? our youth ? are taken down in senseless
>> moments made possible by a lackadaisical community approach to urban safety.
>>
>> In Amadou's honor, we call on Chicagoans to make a resolution for the
>> year 2008 to do their part in changing that by volunteering for CAPS,
>> the City of Chicago's valuable Community Policing program.
>>
>> Let our great city remain a beacon of hope and a place of opportunity
>> to people around the world, but let it also be a leading city in the
>> fight against street crime.
>>
>> Our hearts go out to Amadou's family, friends, and the University of
>> Chicago community.
>>
>> Ahmed M. Rehab
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>> Executive Director
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>> Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago)
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>> Chicago "Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish
>> right from
>> wrong; it lightens the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert,
>> our society in solitude, our companion when friendless, it guides us to
>> happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament amongst
>> friends; and an armour against enemies." (Prophet Mohammed (SAW))
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