Amy Goodman: Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?

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from truthdig:


Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?

Posted on Aug 22, 2012
By Amy Goodman


People remember 1929 as the year of the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the global economic disaster which remains the only one in history that dwarfs the one in which we now find ourselves. It was also the year Martin Luther King Jr. was born, who wouldn’t live to see 40 years. And it was the year that Langston Hughes graduated from Lincoln University, outside Philadelphia.

Hughes, the grandson of abolitionists and voting-rights activists, was an African-American writer. His poem “A Dream Deferred” begins:

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

And then run?”

Hughes left Lincoln University, one of the 105 historically black colleges and universities in the U.S., and spent the rest of his life campaigning for civil and human rights. He died in 1967, two years after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/election_2012_dreams_of_a_vote_deferred_20120822/

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