Blurred Lines: Sagging Mentalities and Defeating Black Nihilism

This is why Don Lemon's five no talking points failed.. This came from Rev. Al Sharpton on the 50th anniversary on the March on Washington. Powerful stuff indeed.
"When I was younger I used to said to my mother, my friends said. Why are we dreaming. You need to be awake to fight. Well my mother said to me you got to understand what dreams are for. Dreams are for those who won't accept reality as it is, so they so they dream of what is not there and make it possible. They will romanticize Dr. Kings speech. But the genius of Dr kings speech was not just the poetry of his words, the genius of his speech is what the bloodshed in Bermingham with Metgar Evars having been killed, with James Farmer, one of his co leaders in jail, he didn't stand here and discuss the pain, he didn't stand here and express the anger, he said in the face of those that wanted him dead, that no matter what you do, I can dream above what you do, I see a nation that will make change if we pay the price, others saw voting booths we couldn't use, but King saw the possibility of an Obama 50 years ago. The world is made of dreamers that change reality because of their dream. And what we must do is we must give our young people dreams again. That's lead Sandars and Widegardern were talking about: you take the funds, you take the expertise and you tell the children they are nothing, and you tell them they aren't expected to be nothing, you build jails and close schools and you break their dreams and you wonder why they walking around with their pants down, because that's what you wear in jail, and if you think that's where you headed, you might as well get dressed before you get there. We need to give them dreams again; not to worry about sagging pants but about sagging mentalities. If we told them who they could be and what they could do, they would pull up their pants and go to work. We've got to change how we deal with this."
Al Sharpton
March on Washington
August 24, 2013