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Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to recent surveys and studies, race relations in the United States are the worst they've been since the 1990s, and many would argue that life for most minorities has not significantly improved since the civil rights era of the 1960s. For so many, the dream of true equality has dissolved into a reality of prejudice, fear, and violence as a way of life. John M. Perkins has been there...

do just enough to get by without repentance. This tension became quite apparent in regard to the riots that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man. The white community sees the reaction of the black community and thinks it is too strong, too violent, and too much. But we in the black community feel we have been oppressed too long and that the changes boasted are, in reality, a far cry from the rhetoric and the legislation. So, of course,