Summary: For a "post-racial" society, we sure talk about race a lot. And not for the first time. 50 years ago, a commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the 1967 race riots issued a report that shocked just about everyone and produced little to no action. Historian Steven Gillon pulls off that scab in his book Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism .
