Posted on 08/12/07
Fight the man or shake his hand?
The small, windowless classroom at the University of Toronto is crammed with teens wearing fur-trimmed hoods and Islamic head scarves. The students who didn't get a seat lean against the back wall. Sourav Deb and Neil Donaldson stand at the front of the room, wearing oversized sweatshirts, slinked-down baggy jeans and stocking caps. With statistics showing nearly half of all black students in Toronto won't graduate from high school, Mr. Deb and Mr. Donaldson are here to inspire an intellectual-radical spirit in these kids - a reason to want to succeed in a system many feel wants them to fail.
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