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of registration, voting registration, among blacks. I was thinking even at the time-- wondering to what extent was that going to be sustained? To what extent after the realities became clear this might not result in a regression, disillusionment, despair among blacks. You know, no matter how excited they get about something, they still have to eventually in the near, very near future, confront the realities of no change.

Let me refer again to this piece by Juan Williams.

When was that?

This was published March 31st of this year. It was in the “Outlook” section of the WASHINGTON POST, which is kind of their Sunday wrap-up. It was on the front page and the headline is “The Vast Gap Between Black And White Visions Of Reality”. That is, in fact, the focus of the piece. He opens by referring to the Koerner Commission Report on Race in 1968, which suggested that the United States was becoming two countries, one white and one black. Williams' thesis is that it was wrong, because blacks and whites could be seen mixing at work today. Mixing in shopping malls, playing sports, and so forth and so on.

He says-- and I'm quoting now-- “Where the races separate is in the yawning gulf growing ever larger between black and white perceptions of politics and life.” And then he goes on and he's got some quotes from Jesse Jackson again, and this one says