Harr harrisperry. Pain, agony, suffering hurt. Our nation is full of pain, pain thats been giving voice most recently in ferguson, missouri. The specific pain of parents who have lost a child, and now know that the Police Officer who killed him will not face criminal charges, the pain of communities who feel helpless in the face of a system that brings so little justice, a system that seems to supply fresh trama weekly adding names to the list of unarmed boys and men whose death is justified by whom to have been afreud of them, oscar, trayvon, john, michael, tamier. This is where i want to pause for a minute, this issue of black mens pain because americans long have had difficulty in understanding, acknowledging and having empathy for the pain of black men. For much of our history, black men have been represented as mergeless brutes, brett tors that can strike without warning at any moment. At the turn of the 20th century, george t. Winston the president of North Carolina college offin