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America, 1967: Five years after the assassination of President Kennedy, and the Civil Rights March in Washington D.C., the Kerner Commission wrote a report that found that America was “moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.†....

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.... preoccupying Americans. Among African-Americans overall, income, life expectancy and employment have been rising.� A Gallup poll released in early June showed that 74% of the black respondents said they were satisfied with the way things were going in their personal lives and also with their standard of living. Among whites, levels of acceptance and tolerance are unprecedented. For example, 93% of whites, a higher percentage than of blacks, said they were willing to vote for a black candidate for President. So why would Clinton be calling for racial healing in a time when “ a curious new element� of peace “seems to have descended over ....