Some great chances lost in '68, '80

America, you had your big chance to Do The Right Thing on justice and equality back in 1968, when the Kerner Commission issued its (really pretty honest) report, blaming America's obstinate refusal to change. The commission laid the culpability where it rightly belonged. In a nutshell, the '67 riots were attributed to USA's "Two Societies, Black and White, Separate and Unequal." The massive conflagrations that hit Detroit, Newark and Milwaukee, to name just the three most lethal that year, should have been a call to action. Though there had already been a series of riotous "Long Hot Summers" beginning in 1964.... http://www.archive.org/stream/kernerreportrevi00asse/kernerreportrevi00asse_djvu.t And I remember following the lethal Miami rebellion on the idiot box in May 1980. In its aftermath, yet another chance to "empower the (politically) powerless" was lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXr2CDiqarc