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Out now from Jackabin 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,

is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto.

White institutions created it. White institutions maintain it, and white society

condones it. Nowhere did white innocence take firmer route in post-World War II America than in the suburbs.

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