Johnny Cash had his reasons for wearing black and if he were still living I think he might see the irony of structurally deficient bridges while we choose to dump a ton of money into military initiatives in the Middle East.

Cash said in his “Man in Black” song that he knew “there’s things that never will be right,and things need changin' everywhere you go, but 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right, you'll never see me wear a suit of white.”

At the risk of sounding like a pessimist, it doesn’t look to me like we’ve given Cash reason to wear white.