"He was dying, but no disease could obscure his truth."
He did it anyway. Every time he says that, an ontological fairy dies.
Tenants: Nods, claps, "That's rights!"
Then he realized the genius of it: His focus was on *them.*
He realized that whenever Frank looked at a speaker, he *saw* them.
Frank asks how we can have such intolerable conditions not just in Newark but all over the country. His answer: We suffer from an empathy deficit.
FRANK: "Civil rights--indeed human rights--are not just about equal access to public accommodation and equal employment opportunity. Human dignity, security, freedom from fear, environmental toxins, and physical deprivation--
In any event, the moral of the chapter is that America's pockets of minority poverty were often created by local, state, and national government policy.
Frank dies.
"Frank, it's Cory."
"I .... see ... you."
Frank, I love you."
"I .... love .... you ... too."
"And the Oscar goes to .... Cory BOOKER for ....
A NEWARK LOVE STORY!!! ...
The crowd goes mad: CO-RY!-CO-RY!-CO-RY! ...
Chapter 7 awaits.