21.   A lot of the work wasabout the heartache of poor black folk, the danger of some kinds of love.

22.   But after a century of these rituals, black folks remain disproportionately in poverty and in the worst schools and still fighting job discrimination.

23.   But black folks cannot afford to watch quantum volumes more of dumb TV when studies suggest that massive viewing indeed damages the brain.

24.   But in his subsequent effort to cover his flanks on racism, Bush still helps frame how the Democrats have taken black folks for granted.

25.   But it should not be missed how Bush praises King when his presidency may well have depended on black folks being put down and held back.

26.   But the black folks tended to sit on the right side of the sanctuary, separated from the whites by a demilitarized zone of empty pews.

27.   But there are some who say that only black folks can help black folks.

28.   But the picture was worth millions in free advertising, me and the black folks, and them being so polite and applauding some.

29.   Elderly black folks and white folks sat in folding chairs while young people in shorts and T-shirts bounced to the beat of the music on the sunny grass.

30.   Even though I had settled in, black folks still hung a nickname on me.