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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence,

Rhode Island. In 1968, the report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,

better known as the Kerner Commission, put things clearly, quote,

what white Americans have never fully understood,

but what the Negro can never forget,

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