A Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?


--Langston Hughes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm AA and it's embarrassing! As Chris Rock has said "I love my people, but I hate NI**$!S!!! They destroy their own neighborhoods..bunch of stupid, uneducated hoodlums! I say, take them out at the knees.

+1

Wanna really get back at The Man? Start going to and graduating from college in droves. That'll show them can't keep AAs down.

THIS!!!!! Well said.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard to understand.. really?

They're angry, frustrated, pissed right off. So.. they destroy buildings? Steal from people who had absolutely nothing to do with this?

How is that easy to understand?

You sound like someone who doesn't have much of a temper. I am a 45 year old mother of 2, white, with a law degree. Sometimes I could burn the whole world down and toast marshmallows over the ashes.

It just takes a few people with a temper like mine to get a party like that started. (And no, I don't burn buildings down. I've had a long time to learn to control my temper.)

Oh I can have one hell of a temper. Nobody will come near me when I'm pissed off. I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I've been known to break my own stuff. I can yell and scream and swear with the best of them. I still know not to do this crap.

The fact that you seem to almost justify this is a little scary.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:17 with more. People in DC and anywhere else who happen to be AA should not be embarrassed by these rioters burning and looting and creating mayhem. You are individuals and people choose to make their own decisions.

My AA friends or their sons would not do this. Hopefully the businesses had business interruption insurance as well as the property coverage with adequate funds to cover deductibles.

Yes but it's akin to rebuilding on a flood plain. At some point you cut your losses and relocate. Insurance companies will not continually renew a policy on a questionable location.

Ferguson isn't a questionable location, especially. It's a working class/lower middle class neighborhood.

Centene is going to build a big office building there.

I know. I was referring to the larger thread topic of looting, not limited to the last 24 hours.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And then people wonder why stores and businesses close down and move out of the neighborhood.

Respect is lacking within the community itself. I don't care what else is going on politically. Those who are willing to set up shop and provide for residents are robbed, looted, burned. They move their businesses and families out and leave behind a wasteland.

That's not because of looting its because of Amazon.

And CVS. But that's another issue.

It's only rioting when black people do it.

Whites acted up in Keene NH, no one cared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:17 with more. People in DC and anywhere else who happen to be AA should not be embarrassed by these rioters burning and looting and creating mayhem. You are individuals and people choose to make their own decisions.

My AA friends or their sons would not do this. Hopefully the businesses had business interruption insurance as well as the property coverage with adequate funds to cover deductibles.

Yes but it's akin to rebuilding on a flood plain. At some point you cut your losses and relocate. Insurance companies will not continually renew a policy on a questionable location.

Ferguson isn't a questionable location, especially. It's a working class/lower middle class neighborhood.

Centene is going to build a big office building there.

Anonymous wrote:It's not that hard to understand.. really?

They're angry, frustrated, pissed right off. So.. they destroy buildings? Steal from people who had absolutely nothing to do with this?

How is that easy to understand?

You sound like someone who doesn't have much of a temper. I am a 45 year old mother of 2, white, with a law degree. Sometimes I could burn the whole world down and toast marshmallows over the ashes.

It just takes a few people with a temper like mine to get a party like that started. (And no, I don't burn buildings down. I've had a long time to learn to control my temper.)

Anonymous wrote:10:17 with more. People in DC and anywhere else who happen to be AA should not be embarrassed by these rioters burning and looting and creating mayhem. You are individuals and people choose to make their own decisions.

My AA friends or their sons would not do this. Hopefully the businesses had business interruption insurance as well as the property coverage with adequate funds to cover deductibles.

Yes but it's akin to rebuilding on a flood plain. At some point you cut your losses and relocate. Insurance companies will not continually renew a policy on a questionable location.

10:17 with more. People in DC and anywhere else who happen to be AA should not be embarrassed by these rioters burning and looting and creating mayhem. You are individuals and people choose to make their own decisions.

My AA friends or their sons would not do this. Hopefully the businesses had business interruption insurance as well as the property coverage with adequate funds to cover deductibles.

Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post has a bizarre caption on a photo of a looter. It's #41 "A protester walks out of a store with goods in Ferguson, Missouri. David Goldman/AP"

Was he shopping and bought a take-out meal?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/grand-jury-to-reveal-decision/2014/11/24/69d89410-71ad-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_gallery.html?hpid=z2

photo #13, 400 years of African Slavery? WTH?

Anonymous wrote:The point of looting is to show you have power over something when you otherwise feel you do not have power.

It's like kicking the dog when you get home from work after your boss yells at you. Transference.

Fine. But saying, "well the looters feel frustrated" only works in the short-term. What about the future of this neighborhood. People still live there, work there. On a small-business level, who will want to invest in this place. What stable families will want to stay. The violent individuals are doing long-term damage.

It's not that hard to understand.. really?

They're angry, frustrated, pissed right off. So.. they destroy buildings? Steal from people who had absolutely nothing to do with this?

How is that easy to understand?

The point of looting is to show you have power over something when you otherwise feel you do not have power.

It's like kicking the dog when you get home from work after your boss yells at you. Transference.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm AA and it's embarrassing! As Chris Rock has said "I love my people, but I hate NI**$!S!!! They destroy their own neighborhoods..bunch of stupid, uneducated hoodlums! I say, take them out at the knees.

I don't believe for one minute that you are black.

NP here. I'm not black but I'm embarrassed for the black community. None of the black people I know would participate in the looting. What parents would even let their children go out last night? It's disgraceful.

If you're not black, and none of the black people you know would participate in the looting, then why, exactly, are you embarrassed for "the black community"?

Exactly. What a ridiculous contradiction. I am Black. I am an individual. No one person or group speaks for me.

All those crazy ass people stealing TVs and cigarettes are claiming to speak for you.

STFU
No they are not
Did you see someone grabbing a TV and stopping and telling people: "This is for all the millions of other black people I don't know!!
STFU AGAIN

Tell me again, why were they rioting? Oh yeah that's right. I must have completely misunderstood everything I've read and heard on the news? I thought the black community was angry how they're being treated by the police. That's what I heard Jesse Jackson, official voice of the black community, just say on the TV. I guess he's wrong too. Please tell me was this is about again?