SUMMER OF ?67One of the biggest race riots was in the summer of ?67.  It was a civil disturbance in Detroit Michigan that began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967.  On that same day, 23 July, I celebrated my 23rd birthday. The anti-Viet Nam war rallies were also hotting-up that year.  Before the end of what became a five day riot, the state and federal governments, under order of the then President Lyndon B. Johnson, sent in the National Guard and United States Army troops. The result of the violence was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests and more than 2,000 buildings burned-down. The scale of this US riot was eclipsed only by the 1992 Los Angeles riots.  My prose-poem here is not intended as either a report on the riot or an analysis.  Readers can find such information on the internet, information that emphasizes poor housing and police brutality as the critical causative factors.  Readers can also read the now extensive literature on racism in America, a literature which often has a detailed discussion of this riot.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 26 June 2009.Tanks and machine guns were usedin the effort to keep the peace....themainstream civil rights movement...was in decline by that summer givingway to high-profile black power..thismore militant approach to racism wasa major political tool to increase blacks? life chances; it took-off as I got marriedand headed for Baffin Island: August?67.Yes, that was the summer of ?67 while Iwas working for the driver examinationbranch of the department of transport inOntario & living in Brantford, taking thetrain on a Friday evening to be with my wife-to-be in Toronto in what seems likelight-years ago, perhaps, two generationsif one defines a generation as 20-25 years.  I had graduated from teachers? college inJune and was ready for my Bah?'? pioneering-travelling adventure among the Inuit in theDistrict of Franklin far, far away from theseracial fires?only to enter another world of fire and snow among a set of people who-like the Negroes-suffered in a rapid-fire transitionfrom hunting and gathering-post-industrialism.Ron Price26 June 2009