"What happens to a dream deferred?"

[sheshe2]

So I guess that today Rep. Paul Ryan said this:

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.

Yes, we all know that when he uses the euphemism of "inner cities," he's talking about black men. And all of the sudden, my head explodes with images of:

Slavery
Jim Crowe
Dred Scott
Lynchings
Grown men called "boy"
"No blacks need apply"
Red lines
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers assassinated
The War on black people Drugs
The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline

And then I think about the question Langston Hughes asked:

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?

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-happens-to-dream-deferred.html

>

Poetry Analysis: ‘Dream Deferred’ by Langston Hughes

Or does it explode?

Dreams that explode, come to pass, or pass through mind and heart, pressing past the staunch, stench sticking to the walls. The raisin does not explode, except in the mouth of a dry and weary traveler, renews his strength, gives him ease for the journey. The dream is now alive, refused to be put away. Not rotten, not running, not run down, but ready to be read.

“Dream Deferred” draws out the dreams deferred in a reader. When the poet poses the question, the reader goes from wondering to pondering. The poem says a lot, like the rotting meat, teeming with life while seeming lifeless, like the dream that waits to be realized.

The poem is so sweet, so juicy, unlike the dry raisin, yet just as tasty. The little poem backs a big, bomb punch, “explodes” in the mind, and beckons deferred dreams to fruition.

Read More: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/arts-entertainment/poetry-analysis-dream-deferred-by-langston-hughes-288523.html

[irisblue]

1. if 'the job creators' did their job in creating jobs

there would be no dreams deferred... am I hoping for too much?

[KansDem]

3. No...

...am I hoping for too much?

"Trickle down" was a scam

[grasswire]

2. Miss Smarty Pants again?

Did she ever get her wish?

[sheshe2]

4. So this means nothing to you?

Yes, we all know that when he uses the euphemism of "inner cities," he's talking about black men. And all of the sudden, my head explodes with images of:

Slavery
Jim Crowe
Dred Scott
Lynchings
Grown men called "boy"
"No blacks need apply"
Red lines
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers assassinated
The War on black people Drugs
The Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline

And then I think about the question Langston Hughes asked:

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?

Really? You have nothing to add but snark?

Is it that white privilege thing?

You don't feel or see the pain, so you ignore it and snark.

And yes, I think she did get her wish, her articles piss you off.

[In_The_Wind]

7. ~

[sheshe2]

9. Hi, ITW and thank you~

[In_The_Wind]

10. I'm always happy to read good news about littlemissmartypants.

[sheshe2]

11. Good,

cause I have every intention to keep posting her pieces!

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Paul Ryan called out in comment following this topic in huffington post

Pretty rich coming from a guy who has been on the government teat since he was a teen, had the government pay for his college education, worked on the Hill for a Wisconsin politician, became a Republican politician all on the tax payer dime, while he bemoans a culture of dependency from the poorly served, severely neglected, under represented, centers of the worst of the worst funded schools, in an era when the center of the cities have mostly been shuttered up to businesses and been replaced by mega stores like Wal-Mart and fast junk food places like McDonalds.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/paul-ryan-inner-cities_n_4949165.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[sheshe2]

6. Yes, I read that.

He is a user and a hypocrite.

[DonViejo]

8. It gets worse...

Paul Ryan cites ‘white nationalist’ to blame poverty on lazy men in ‘inner cities’

-snip-

Ryan also pointed to the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

-snip-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024650980