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?
~Langston Hughes
I am so disappointed by the failure of the United States Senate today as it failed to move the
DREAM Act forward. A minority of the Unite States Senators obstructed the will of the majority of the Senate, the majority of the House of Representatives and the majority of American Citizens. We will keep on working on this issue. I pray the the arch of the universe, as long as it takes, will continue to bend toward justice.
DREAM Act forward. A minority of the Unite States Senators obstructed the will of the majority of the Senate, the majority of the House of Representatives and the majority of American Citizens. We will keep on working on this issue. I pray the the arch of the universe, as long as it takes, will continue to bend toward justice.
Thanks to California's United States Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Fienstien for their long time support of the DREAM Act.
Three Republican Senators, Richard Lugar, Lisa Murkowski, and Robert Bennett voted for it.
Here are the "NO" democrats: Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jon Tester of Montana, Max Baucus of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska voted against bringing the bill to the floor.
Another Langston Hughes quotation from my friend Jose, a DREAMer who teaches me much: “HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAMS, FOR IF DREAMS DIE, LIFE IS A LIKE A BROKEN WINGED BIRD WHO CANNOT FLY.”
Thanks to Tommy Nixon who posted the Hughes poem at the top of this post on his Facebook status.
[UPDATE] For a wrap up on today's Senate action on DREAM see this link for Michael E. Hill's amazing reporting. And, for a roster of all the votes, see this.
