You suggest that when you were young it was much simpler sorting out the race issue. That is probably because, when you were young,  Toronto was made up of an over-whelming white majority culture.  You didn't have much to deal with.  Minority wants, needs, desires were subsumed by the huge white majority. More than half of Torontonians today were born outside of Canada. They want a greater voice in the community. Sorry if things aren't like they used to be, in "simpler" times, as you suggest.