Marc Elrich, a Democrat, is the Montgomery County executive.
This is a deeply troubling time in our society. Our failure to deal with more than four centuries of racism has pushed racial tensions to a boiling point yet again. Fifty-two years ago, in the wake of rioting that rocked American cities, the national blue-ribbon Kerner Commission’s report documented the horrific legacy and the racist practices that led to the riots. A preface to the report described it as “not so much a report on the riots as a report on America — one nation, divided.”
