NEGROES ON THE DCF PLANTATION AND THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF KING'S SPEECH

The scene of all those black people lining up to board buses ( dressed in fine regalia) headed for Washington D.C. was indeed a sight. All those people of color went on August 28, 2013 in celebration of Martin Luther King's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Negroes came from all over the country, including the DCF Plantation; why I spotted a few blacks from Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown headed to Washington to pay homage to what King stood for; jobs, ending segregation,  confronting racism, inequality etc. However in my mind there is a disconnect between what King said [ in his "I Have A Dream " speech], and what Negroes on the DCF Plantation are not doing. In other words why go celebrate a man who stood for something and sacrificed his life for an ideal, while negroes on the CJTS plantation are shivering from fear of even speaking the truth ( about bias from administrators). Why are CJTS blacks still whispering in master's house?

 In the world we live in people often refuse to take stands for anything: evil continues unabated - inducing something called spirit death. Yet on the 50th anniversary of that March on Washington people were "fronting" i.e. pretending to be for truth, justice, and the American Way- while looking the other way at injustices on the DCF Plantation in Greater Hartford. King wept on August 28, 2013, how far have black people really come in 50 years? To answer that question just look at the great silence hovering over that institution in Middletown allowing racism to thrive.