Recommended read from Salon.com: Cornel West was right all along: Why America needs a moment of clarity now

" Langston Hughes famously asked, “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?"