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LAST week marked the 20th anniversary of the Kerner Commission's report on race relations...
...President Johnson called upon the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders (called the Kerner Commission for its chief, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois) to assess the country's racial situation. The commission concluded, in words all too honest and despairing for many to bring themselves to believe, that "we are moving toward two separate societies--separate and unequal...
...have not yet fallen as far as the words of the Kerner Commission portended. An overall increase in equal opportunity in education and jobs, affirmative action, workfare programs, and self-help and economic advancement on the part of minority groups have gone a long way towards correcting the ills of a society not so long ago littered with racial quotas and shockingly unjust segregation laws...
Twenty years later we may not have fallen so far, but a report prepared for the anniversary of the Kerner study reveals that we still have miles to go. Now the key issue is no longer legal barriers to advancement, but economic setbacks...
...report draws the reader to the inner cities, where there exists "a persistent, large and growing underclass." In words which closely echo Kerner's assessment of Black ghettos in the 1960's, the inner cities are described as places of "crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare and resentment against society in general and white society in particular...