17. "Or Does It Explode?"
"Or Does It Explode?" seems interesting to me because it talks about the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes which is a really good poem.
"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?"
Well, in the first place, I had been working all day on the job. I was quite tired after spending a full day working. I handle and work on clothing that white people wear. That didn't come in my mind but this is what I wanted to know: when and how would we ever determine our rights as human beings? ... It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. He called a policeman and I was arrested and placed in jail...."
18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
25. The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism"