Not long ago I was involved in a meeting concerning racial problems in our city. The meeting was long, and rather depressing. It was difficult to find a common theme, other than that we had racial problems and no one knew exactly what to do about them.

On the way out of the meeting, a man said to me, a man who has been a life-long activist in the Civil Rights Movement, "It makes you long for the Sixties, doesn't it?"

I asked him what he meant.

He continued, "Back in the Sixties, when it came to racism, we knew exactly what we needed to do. We had a clear goal--the passage of new legislation.  We could organize accordingly, and move toward our goal. When we achieved our goal, we could celebrate and feel good. But today, the problems are more subtle. The conflict is deeper. There is no cl…