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Goods v. Lives. The low "kill-rate," to borrow an unhappy term from the other war, was due in large measure to lessons learned from three years of urban upheaval. Heeding the advice of the Kerner riot-commission report, which warned that "the use of excessive force-even the inappropriate display of weapons-may be inflammatory and lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept...
Chicago's toll of eleven deaths, 911 injuries, 3,965 arrests and $11 million in damage might have soared far higher without the efforts of Rumor Central, a ten-month-old agency that checked out reports and squelched unfounded fears. Praised by the Kerner riot commission for its work during last year's strife, Rumor Central added 35 volunteers to its staff of 47 and in this year's five-day flare-up handled 40,000 telephone calls-most of them concerning such fantasies as the lynching of two nuns and the landing of Stokely Carmichael from...
...urgent" need for enactment of his 10% surcharge on income taxes and for the adoption of "a program of national austerity to ensure that our economy will prosper and that our fiscal position will be sound." For the first time, he came out with a warm endorsement of the Kerner Commission report on last summer's riots. Having previously all but ignored the commission's exhaustive assessment of the racial crisis, the President somewhat defensively declared: "We thought the report was a very thorough one, very comprehensive, and made many good recommendations...
...must be understood in terms of the grave psychological dilemma which blacks in America are breaking out of." Taken to its conclusion, Hamilton's implication is that blacks are through with the self-demeaning black mentality which is reinforced institutionally by the subtle and pervasive racism of which the Kerner Report spoke...
...Hamilton had done his homework, and he drew often from recent experience outside the classroom. He faced questions directly, often taking them beyond their obvious conclusions, and always with striking candor. To the question of what the white's role is in Black Power politics, Hamilton quickly replied: "The (Kerner) Report speaks to whites, not blacks; what happens as a result of it depends on whites. Your place is in the white community just as ours is in the black community. Your work in the white community--changing the deeply ingrained racism--is as crucial as ours...