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Otto Kerner
This was the infamous Kerner Commission whose echoes are still being felt. Among its recommendations was a plan called Spatial Deconcentration. It called for the Department Housing and Urban Development to use federal loans, redevelopment block grants and (illegal) bank "redlining" to restructure the class structure of America's cities geographically. Specifically, the inner city ghettos were to be broken up into satellite ghettos along the South African model. They are easier for the government to control because they are smaller and isolated and therefore it's harder for the residents to organize.
This plan has been only partially successful nationwide. It's effects in certain cities, San Francisco among them, were appalling. Most of the residents of the Fillmore district, for example, were dumped across the bay into Oakland and Richmond.
In the early Eighties a HUD worker in Philadelphia stole secret documents outlining the details of HUD's role in Spatial Deconcentration and self-published 500 copies. She was murdered on the street in a gangland style hit that left her walking companions unscathed. But the cat was out of the bag. A copy had already fallen into the hands of an excellent little New York-based magazine called World War Three.
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