Did Dr. Kings dream die on a summer Thursday?
by Dennis Rahkonen Link to Article I don’t think I’ve ever feared for America’s future as much as on the 28th of June, 2007. Not even during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when I was a boy ducking down beneath the edge of our bathtub, as a radio in the next room warned of possible nuclear war at any moment, and my sudsy float toys slipped away from trembling hands. Not on 9/11, which I’d almost come to expect, given the foreign rage that Washington’s abysmally misguided policies were generating throughout especially the Islamic world. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) { nf=” } else { nf=’NF/’ }; document.write(ts+’script src=”http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad5061a.cgi/v=2.1S/sz=300x250A/NZ/’+12616165211507619915+’/’+nf+’RETURN-CODE/JS/”>’+ts+’/script>’); On the third-to-last day of my favorite month, just hours ago, I clearly saw the specter of a fascist tomorrow. The U.S. Supreme Court savaged Dr. King’s dream — and all those years of such hard struggle by s
