This is a collection of essays written over sixty years from the Civil Rights Movement to 2017. They cover the author's on history of growing up during Jim Crow, critiques of the justification of segregation by his church, an analysis of the black power movement, the impact of sexual myths on racism and an analysis of the causes of the failure of the dream for justice and freedom proclaimed by Martin Luther Kind many years ago. Joe Smith, a retired African-American police officer has added his comments at the end of this book