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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.

50 years ago, a rather mainstream group of high-profile Americans declared the following.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.

Reaction to last summer's disorders has quickened the movement and deepened the division. Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life.

Now they threaten the future of every American. This deepening racial division is not inevitable.

The movement apart can be reversed.

Choice is still possible.

Our principal task is to define that choice and oppress for a national resolution.

That was the Kerner Commission, established by President Johnson,

in the wake of urban uprisings and riots in the late 1960s. It embodied left liberalism at its

most bold and idealistic best. But that notion of radical reform was eviscerated by the American War on Vietnam, the rise of

neoliberalism and the modern conservative movement, and liberal triangulation that reached

its apotheosis under Bill Clinton.

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