The Scarborough Curse. ⇒
20 November 2007, mid-afternoon
"How did boring, white-bred Scarberia, the butt of Mike Myers jokes, become Scarlem—a mess of street gangs, firebombings and stabbings?" Update: What a disappointing article. Kennedy Station is the heart and soul of the city? Has this dude even been to Scarborough? This article is what happens when you let old White men write about the city: it's as if the crimes in Scarborough that he discusses are somehow scarier because the perpetrators aren't White. Scarborough is huge: you can't sum it up like it was a block or two big.
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me and the midland crew are gonna be waiting for this dude at kennedy station all week so we can bust his face! scarboRRRRRO represent!
by matthew on November 20 2007, 8:34 pm #
LOL…at what Matthew said.
by radmila on November 20 2007, 9:14 pm #
Weiguo, I got the sense this is his report on Scarborough, not on how its perceived. It’s all very, “Scarborough is full of Ethnic folk, and therein lies its first problem…”
by ramanan on November 20 2007, 9:49 pm #
Man, you know what’s best about Scarborough?
Everything.
by rishi on November 20 2007, 10:10 pm #
I was back in Scarborough today — to find out if I have high cholesterol, which I don’t, siin). Truly it was as awesome as I remember it.
by ramanan on November 20 2007, 10:49 pm #
To be fair, I think if you were under the impression that Scarborough was basically “Wayne’s World,” and then you took a trip out to Kennedy Station, you’d probably be pretty confused about the state of affairs as well.
by Matt on November 20 2007, 11:58 pm #
I don’t know if I’d give the benefit of the doubt to anyone who watched Wayne’s World and equated it with reality.
by rishi on November 21 2007, 11:47 am #