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Change Strategies

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The denouement came with the proverbial whimper. After having been inaugurated with much fanfare in the spring of 1997, by September of 1998 President Clinton’s Race Advisory Board presented him with a 121-page report on the state of race relations in America. Amidst the brouhaha caused by the Lewinsky affair, a “national conversation” that was supposed to illuminate the reasons for our racial malaise ended in disappointment. Buried on the back pages of most newspapers, hardly anyone noticed that the panel’s recommendations were neither new nor exciting. Mostly a rehash of its member’s preexisting beliefs, what was advertised as a “study” of an important issue, rather than stimulating an in-depth communal examination, exposed its author’s quasi-moralistic agendas.

You say you want a revolution

Well you know

we all want to change the world...

But when you talk about destruction

Don’t you know you can count me out.

Paul McCartney, Revolution (1968)

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