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Posted: Fri 12:54, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: acouple years later |
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years ago we would have thought it far-fetched thatwe'd have a black man in the White House and a Latina in the Supreme Court. Butduring the past month of race baiting in the media around Trayvon Martin'smurder, you would think we were hell-bent to go back to 1992. You might haveeven heard someone saying, affecting irony, that they didn't want to be aroundif a jury acquitted George Zimmerman.Every time Igo past my childhood home, I remember when the city was on fire. I still seethe ghostly flicker of the rage and violence that surged right up to ourdoorstep, to the very corner where Tommy Lee Jones turned back the terriblelava flow in Volcano, and where, acouple years later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would return in the form of hot lead to pepper the bodyof another Christopher Wallace.Whether itwas the one we wanted, the one we needed, or the one we asked for, thatWednesday, April 29, 1992, our generation got its wake up call. Whether we'veresponded in kind, squandered the opportunity, or sunk ever deeper into our ownlethargy in the
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