As Myrdal aptly foretold: “The younger generations [the leaders and persons who had come to power by 1964]… are less indoctrinated against the Negro than their parents were. But they are also farther away from him, know less about him and, sometimes, get more irritated by what little they see.”84 As the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders reported in 1968, in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement, “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” Racialization, although it changed in form, remained ever-present.
