AP PHOTO/PATRICK SEMANSKY
‘STILL NOT FREE’
aren’t living in the colorblind,
post-racial society we hoped a
black president might usher in,
not when success is so split along
color lines.
“We have famous names of outstanding achievement,” the Rev.
Jesse Jackson told me. “We have
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LeBron. We have Jay Z. We have
Barack Obama. But that is not a
random sample. What matters is
the undercurrent, and it’s pulling
our people down.”
This is a teaching moment in
American life, a teaching summer.
The country, including the
president himself, is talking about
race again. It’s our oldest and
deepest argument, a conversa-
Poverty,
joblessness
and
incarceration
have all
increased in
Cummings’
Baltimore
district since
the start of
the recession.