I have no answers. Racism itself may be a modern phenomenon. But what is it about the United States?Is it connected with the founding extermination of native peoples? Really, nothing makes a lot of sense to me. But the scars of our history here in this country seem different than European countries.
Whatever the difference, it is apparent in the fact that Baldwin was happier in France, Yerby in Spain, Pinckney in Britain.
Something deep and corrosive and unexamined is perhaps characteristic of our American history, but the strands are beyond my articulation.
Friday, November 23, 2018
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