Race Man. Julian Bond

to tell the Vietnamese people what kind of government they can have and under what circumstances.

      Here at home, the campuses of America have barely quieted down from last semester, and the upcoming ones promise to be just as long and may be just as hot.

      On the campus, attempts at reform are refuted, and attempts at revolution are suppressed. Young people have discovered that our finest universities hold investments in slave mines, or research the best ways to defoliate jungles and people.

      

      All Americans have learned over the past several years that the machinery that we were told was built to protect us—college deans and the machinery, American presidents and their machinery—were in fact bent on suppressing those with whom they dealt. . . .

      For some Americans in the 1960s, politics failed completely. One potential candidate in 1968 fell victim to an assassin’s bullet; another was stilled by parliamentary democracy.

      But some lessons didn’t have to be learned.

      It didn’t take a Kerner Report for black people to discover that white people were our problem, and not we theirs.