"The daily life of the Negro is still lived in the basement of the Great Society."
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., from "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
More than four decades later, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring louder than the thunder on this gray summer day as I drive down Emmett Till Road. The skies cry.
The "dream" now more resembles a nightmare, no matter how great our stride toward freedom, or having now witnessed a black man sworn into the White House, or even the looming dedication Sunday of the grand white-stone structure on the National Mall in King's memory.
Out here, in ghetto America this afternoon, the sound of …
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