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...Jamin Kerner was still wearing his prep school colors...
After the game, Jamin Kerner talked excitedly about playing in a Harvard uniform. No, he was not nervous. He was not the type that got nervous before games. A goal in his first game, well, he couldn't have written it any better. What a beginning...
That may be because it smacks of deja vu. What the proposal inevitably brought to mind was the 1968 Kerner Commission, probably the most famous government panel after the Warren Commission. Formed to examine why riots had hit more than a dozen American cities in the mid-1960s, it famously prophesied the world we verge on: "Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal...
Twenty-seven years after Kerner, many of the problems it identified are as bad or worse. Before World War II, just 5% of blacks were in the middle class. Today the figure is closer to 60%. But the same years have seen a disappearance of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that pulled blue-collar workers, black and white alike, into prosperity. Good jobs now require skills that schools in poor neighborhoods do an ever more dismal job of teaching. And the white fear of a black underclass fosters the kind of racism that constantly puts even the black middle class...
...Kerner commission recommended "a comprehensive approach designed to reconstruct the ghetto child's social and intellectual environment, compensate for disadvantages already suffered and provide necessary tools for development of essential literary skills." But policymakers, strapped for money and short on time, rejected the comprehensive approach and opted for a quick and dirty...