This article was published in News Press letters to the editor on November 6, 2008
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Could the outcome have been predicted?Yes and it was!On March 17, 1968 Democratic nominee Robert F. Kennedy appeared on the Sunday morning news show Meet the Press. Here is what RFK said only 2 ½ months before his tragic death.Things are "moving so fast in race relations, a Negro* could be president in 40 years. There's no question about it," RFK added."In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother had....we have tried to make progress and we are making progress ...we are not going to accept the status quo."*Negro was a perfectly acceptable term for African-American back then; in fact it was the formal respectful word, a neutral word which black Americans preferred)
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