From Reaction to Reflection
We know that racism is structural--what vision for change will prevail?
In 1962, James Baldwin described what it was like to make the turn from childhood to adulthood as a black man. His male peers, he wrote in the New Yorker, seemed
lost, and unable to say what it was that oppressed them, except that they knew it was `the man’—the white man. And there seemed to be no way whatever to remove this cloud that stood between them…
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