The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened
www.smithsonianmag.com
Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence

…the government then acted on this by increasing discriminatory policing and putting more people in jail.

  • Mehrtelb [he/him]
    18•2 years ago

    Well the system furthered the interests of the bourgeoisie, so it worked as intended. Why fix it if it ain’t broken right? /s

  • Water Bowl Slime
    16•2 years ago

    White response to the Kerner Commission helped to lay the foundation for the law-and-order campaign that elected Richard Nixon to the presidency later that year. Instead of considering the full weight of white prejudice, Americans endorsed rhetoric that called for arming police officers like soldiers and cracking down on crime in inner cities.

    Nothing has changed.

    • Water Bowl Slime
      9•2 years ago

      “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” -Karl