January 31, 2003

American Pride, American Shame

When I look back over the history of the United States in my lifetime, I can see as many causes for shame as for pride. For we seem always to have taken three steps forward and two back. Our pride in the civil-rights movement is entirely justified, but suburban whites cannot compare their children's prospects with those of black children in the inner cities without feelings of shame. Equal chances for everybody's kids was the heart of the American dream, and there has been little progress in

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