Then McCarthyism put even the vaguest liberals on the defensive. By the end of the sixties, after a decade and a half of the civil rights movement and five years of the anti-Vietnam War movement, America's institutions had never been so openly questioned by such a broad spectrum of political opinion, even though the right was strong enough to win the presidential election. Seen from today's vantage point we can see that all these early trends have gathered impetus. Blacks, if educated, have never had it so good. Violent protest of a political nature has withered to insignificant proportions.
White opinion is more accomodating.
Blacks politically now pack a punch. This underclass simply has no parallel in any other industrialized country. The job outstanding is immense. Left untended it continues to coarsen, corrode and roughen all of American society.