Civil Disorder: From Ghetto Streets To Saigon

Civil Disorder: From Ghetto Streets To Saigon

Summary of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Report (Kerner Report). Talks about how racism and discrimination are the cause of segregation and separation within America. The report condemns moves to "equip police departments with mass destruction weapons, such as automatic rifles." The author then references the riots post-assassination of MLK and clarifies how they are not indicative of a communist plot or crime, but rather that they stem from feelings of "frustration, alienation, and discontent."

Volume 63, Number 18

Gerry Goodrich

The Campus

3/14/1968

Gerry Goodrich

"We as white Americans simply must realize that the violence of the past summer and of future summers is not a manifestation of either an organized communist plot or of debased natural criminals acting out their nature. We must see that what this violence grows out of-- frustration, alienation, and discontent--- is developed in an environment that we as whites created, perpetuate, and now condone."