i do not believe we can stop them, samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves.ll i urge you to struggle. struggle for the memory of your ancestors. struggle for wisdom. struggle for the warmth of the mecca. struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, struggle for your name. but do not struggle for the dreamers. hope for them. pray for them, if you are so moved. but do not pin your struggle on their conversion. the dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all. the dream is the same habit that endangers the planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos. i saw these ghettos driving from dr. jones's home. they were the same ghettos i had seen in chicago all those years ago, the same ghettos where my mother was raised, where my father was raised. through the windshield i saw the mark of these ghettos-the abundance of beauty shops, churches, liquor stores, and crumbling housing. and i felt the old fear.