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HOUSE DIVIDED
In the wake of the 1967 riots, President Johnson commissioned the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Herblock reacted to the report, stating, "What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it." For Herblock, the implicit wedge of white racism perpetuated poverty, crime, and a second-rate education for impoverished African Americans.
House Divided, 1968. Published in the Washington Post, March 5, 1968. |