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them in the first place.

Unfortuntely, the unwillingness and inability to define or analyze the problem it correctly identifies makes such commissions mystifying and inherently unable to froce implementation.

For the record it is necessary to deal briefly here with the myth of "negro progress". Despite the highly visible advancement of some black people in recent years, it must be understood that the objective situation of most blacks, relative to whites, has remained unchanged or deteriorated. Infant and maternal death rates for black infants and mothers have deteriorated in urban areas not only relative to white death rates but also relative to the black rates of 1940's, 50's, and early '60's.

Blac unemployment as a percentage of all unemployment is rising, particularly for black youth. Although poverty is being reduced overall, black poverty as an incidence of all poverty has risen steadily since 1959.