Frederik Pohl's "The Day After the Day the Martians Came" (short story)

This story might make better sense to readers familiar with the US of 1960s.

Story summary.

A crowd of media personnel is assembled in a motel, in anticipation of a NASA announcement tomorrow regarding Martians brought by their Mars mission. I missed the point of the story, but the author clarifies that the existence of Martians could unite us & ease white/black tensions of US.

Fact sheet.

First published: Harlan Ellison (ed)'s "Dangerous Visions" (1967).
Download a comic book adaptation from The Bronze Age of Blogs. [via Marooned]
Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Frederik Pohl.