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Robert A. Rees: What happens to a dream deferred?
“I have a dream...” — Martin Luther King remembers him as “a happy boy” with big dreams inspired by black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His teacher even framed a drawing 8-year-old George drew of Marshall with the caption, “When I grow up, I want to be a Supreme Court Judge.” Put that image with the image of a policeman’s knee on George Floyd’s neck. In his poem, “,” Langston Hughes’ asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It is a question that currently is being answered with increasing insistence on the streets of America and throughout the world. It is a question Black...…“I have a dream...” — Martin Luther King remembers him as “a happy boy” with big dreams inspired by black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His teacher even framed a drawing 8-year-old George drew of Marshall with the caption, “When I grow up, I want to be a Supreme Court Judge.” Put that image with the image of a policeman’s knee on George Floyd’s neck. In his poem, “,” Langston Hughes’ asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It is a question that currently is being answered with increasing insistence on the streets of America and throughout the world. It is a question Black...WW…
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