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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1458526" data-attributes="member: 22662">It&#039;s nothing sinister or unexpected...in fact I feel rather hopeful.&nbsp; For all the dismissive talk of the &quot;race card&quot;, we have serious race problems in this country.&nbsp;&nbsp; Blacks certainly aren&#039;t blameless but neither are they the sole perpetrators.&nbsp; Langston Hughe&#039;s got it exactly right on a personal and societal level while answering the question, &quot;What happens to a dream deferred? &quot;There&#039;s nothing sinister here, just the natural progression.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the written law, the grand jury got it right.&nbsp; Justice is a funny thing though.&nbsp;&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t only live in court rooms and the &quot;not guilty&quot; don&#039;t always get to live &quot;happily ever after&quot;.&nbsp; Sometimes neighborhoods burn and violence erupts.&nbsp; We shouldn&#039;t act surprised.&nbsp; We will continue to see what happens to a dream deferred. It explodes.&nbsp;Senseless?&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; Still true. The best we&#039;ve been able to do so far in 60 years has been to begin breeding ourselves out of it.&nbsp; Of course,&nbsp; then a beautiful Cheerios commercial comes along to show us how far we have left to go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 1458526, member: 22662"] It's nothing sinister or unexpected...in fact I feel rather hopeful. For all the dismissive talk of the "race card", we have serious race problems in this country. Blacks certainly aren't blameless but neither are they the sole perpetrators. Langston Hughe's got it exactly right on a personal and societal level while answering the question, "What happens to a dream deferred? " There's nothing sinister here, just the natural progression. According to the written law, the grand jury got it right. Justice is a funny thing though. It doesn't only live in court rooms and the "not guilty" don't always get to live "happily ever after". Sometimes neighborhoods burn and violence erupts. We shouldn't act surprised. We will continue to see what happens to a dream deferred. It explodes. Senseless? Yeah. Still true. The best we've been able to do so far in 60 years has been to begin breeding ourselves out of it. Of course, then a beautiful Cheerios commercial comes along to show us how far we have left to go. [/QUOTE]

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