RIPPLE SALVO… #726… Humble Host interrupts the remembrance of the air war called Rolling Thunder to highlight the work of a Presidential Commission—the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Fifty years ago on 1 March 1968 the Commission report was presented to the President and made public. Here is the bold headline from The New York Times:

“PANEL ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE CALLS FOR DRASTIC ACTION TO AVOID 2-SOCIETY NATION–WHITES CRITICIZED–VAST AID TO NEGRO URGED, WITH NEW TAXES IF NEEDED”…

Yesterday the Washington Post published an essay by Vanessa Williams under the following headline:

“FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE KERNER COMMISSION,” a new report cites some of the same concerns about race and poverty”…

The report 2018 report is titled: “Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty years After the Kerner Report,” released by the Eisenhower Foundation on 28 February 1968…

History is the teacher… no better example can I find than this series of reports… For an understanding of where we are going as a country, here is a a history lesson for the ages…

Summary of the Kerner Report… http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545

Eisenhower Foundation on Kerner… http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/kerner.pdf

Good Morning: Day SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX of a remembrance of an air war fought by the brave and bold fifty yearsago…

1 March 1968… New York Times Head Lines on a windy and cold FRIDAY… (LEAP YEAR HAS SCREWED UP PARALLEL DAYS OF THE WEEK)… 2018 1 Mar is a Thursday, I will learn to cope…

Page 1: “…PANEL CALLS FOR DRASTIC ACTION…”…”The Presidsent’s National Advsiory Commission on Civil Disorders gave this warning to Americans tonight: ‘Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white–separate and unequal.’ Unless drastic action and costly remedies are begun at once, the commission said, ‘continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values.’ The commission said, ‘White racism’ was chiefly to blame for the explosive conditions tht sparked riots in American cities during the last few summers. But it also warned that a policy of separation now advocated by many black militants ‘can only relegate Negroes to a permanently inferior economic state.’ “… Page 1: “Dirksen Seeks to Weaken Compromise on Civil Rights Open Housing.”… Page 1: “Johnson Pledgews A Crime Crusade–Tells Governors He’d Lead Drive For Better Control”… Page 1: “Newark Mayor Bars Police Review Board”… Page 1: “Snow cuts Power And Slows Traffic–Storm Also Closes Kennedy–Fire Alarm Boxes Fail”…

Dear RTR guys/gals…. serious computer probs here…got send this before the bug comes back seeya tomorrow…. Bear