Bryan Brock: Toronto

Remix Project Dept: "We thought that to see someone who looks like them assume the most powerful office in the world would be very powerful, very meaningful for those kids," says Bryan Brock, one of the organizers of the trip and now the creative arts program leader at Toronto's Remix Project, an artistic, cultural, entrepreneurial and educational centre built on a foundation of video and music. "But the trip, to say the least, was very trying.", according to Winnipeg Free Press. "The first bus got through," he remembers. "The second bus got through. The third bus got held up, and then they called the second bus back. We were there for seven and a half hours, and we had a lot of different emotions and wASHINGTON -- Four years ago this weekend, three chartered buses left Toronto for Washington carrying 163 so-called "at risk" youths, as if all young people are not at risk of peer pressure, violence, ostracism, self-doubt, and even self-destruction. Their goal was the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the first mixed-race president of the United States. "Oh, my Lord," groans another of the riders, recalling what happened next, especially to the girls who were scarved in prim Muslim attire. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.