5 Feet of Fury

Margaret Wente: These ‘poor’ black kids in Toronto have more nice sh*t than we do

OK, I’m paraphrasing…

We have a million euphemisms for what’s gone wrong in our so-called “priority” neighbourhoods, a splendidly euphemistic term that has replaced “at-risk,” “disadvantaged,” “underprivileged” and “poor.”

By now, it should be obvious that material poverty is not the problem – not when every kid in a priority neighbourhood has a cellphone and a flat-screen TV.

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