In February, the Kerner Commission warned of a U.S. moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.

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And it will be interesting to see how European societies now deal with their own minorities now that we have a black president in the United States.

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Not just the tycoons of that trade, but its induced economy, even on some entire societies in parts of the world where the whole national economy rested upon black oily hydrocarbons oozing out of the ground and where, in some cases, people had just finished ousting tyrants who had been monoplizing this resource.

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