By James Baldwin — 1962
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
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CLEAR ALL
As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.
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