Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much-heralded Crisis at Columbia, the 222-page report of the five-man Cox Commission, differs strikingly from the reports of the other two most publicized investigative commissions in recent years--the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination and the Kerner Commission report on urban riots...
...KERNER Commission Report described a mood and a problem--that of "white racism" in America and the growing spirit of discontent by black people--and the Cox report performs a similar task in discussing the basic causes of student discontent and showing the "authoritarianism" of Columbia's administration and trustees. It has therefore provided a distinct service, especially to the so-called "establishment" which so often blames campus uprisings on radical or revolutionary students supposedly dedicated only to destruction and violence. The Cox Commission has established that the Columbia rebellion was not all due to SDS members and their "exaggeration...
...primary failure of the Cox report is that--unlike the Kerner Commission Report--Crisis at Columbia does not deal with solutions or propose ways to proceed. Where Kerner's group made specific recommendations on what could be done to improve the status of black people in America and the condition of our cities, Cox and his fellow commissioners conclude with a set of idealistic hopes on the way universities should be rather than what should be done. For instance, the Report states that the "university is essentially a free community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of truth and knowledge...
...hope that the U.S. will hold a birthday party instead of a wake in the '70s, the Kerner commission offers some cogent proposals. The nation's welfare system must be reformed and upgraded to provide basic sustenance where needed and to discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums...
...range proposals for social and economic programs at the federal level will soon be enacted on anything near the scale recommended. The report has provoked intense interest and prompted reforms in some areas; in many, it has been largely ignored. Mayor John Reading of Oakland, Calif., even accuses the Kerner commission of being partly responsible for the militants' takeover of Oakland's black leadership. "Permissiveness will do us in," says Reading, "and the Kerner answer was permissiveness." To this, New York Mayor John Lindsay, who was vice chairman of the Kerner commission, replies that if repression becomes society...