As I watch press coverage of the protests blooming around the country in the wake of听the听grand jury’s decision in the shooting death of听Michael Brown, I am reminded of听听a piece from Ernest Morrell’s presidential address at the 起点传媒convention this Sunday.
He is reflecting upon听:
“It is my belief that no kid steps onto a kindergarten campus in September planning to be a high school dropout.听What we have in front of us are dreams.听Each of those kids represents a dream.听Their own dreams. The dreams of those who love them, and fed them, and clothed them, and dropped them off and cried when they walked away. We are not as concerned as a society as we could be about the dream but we want to throw all sorts of money at the explosion.听That is in Langston Hughes鈥� poem because if you start with the dream it adds a little bit of a moral imperative that you nurture that dream… It鈥檚 much easier to nurture a dream than to deal with an explosion.”