an almost exactly one year from now we will be marking the 50th anniversary of the release of the kerner commission's report. it had the famous line in the prologue that we are now moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate but equal. a placeholder to that, i will say why was the commission saying that in those terms in 1968? but back to the prior question about the significance and importance of the detroit rebellion. narrative which heather referenced, and you can tell in the way she describes it there may be other ways. there was a lot packed into that naming. metanarrative where she was challenged -- that narrative where she said her book challenges. 1967 features prominently in that narrative. to put it succinctly, detroit's rebellion was called a riot. it initiated the city's downfall. heather's book and other scholars have critiqued on that. that opened up space for other narratives. i will close by saying another way to understand the history of the detroit rebellion -- one of its legacies is the political thought and action that led to it and more portly came a