<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18424" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">American Dream</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18424" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18424" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">American Dream, <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18425" class="">American Nightmare</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18426" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">America the beautiful,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18427" class="">prophecy of Blake,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18428" class="">democratic vista of Whitman,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18429" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18430" class="">harbinger of a new humanity,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18431" class="">melting pot for Europeans,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18432" class="">Russians, Asians, Middle-Easterners,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18433" class="">Latinos, Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18434" class="">Christians, Jews, Santaria,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18435" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Where are you bound?<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18436" class="">You future is in your own hands,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18437" class="">grappling with each other <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18438" class="">in grim clinch,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18439" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The White Mask, inflexible—<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18440" class="">not even white, really, <br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18441" class="">more like “pinko-grey”,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18442" class="">as Kipling said —<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18443" class="">firm against the Rainbow?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18444" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But is it not all One Spectrum:<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18445" class="">under God, indivisible,<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18446" class="">and some day with</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18319" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18447" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">liberty and justice<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18448" class="">for all!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18447" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18447" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Max Reif</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468519823017_18267" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </div><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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