Healing is always accompanied by pain. Depending on its severity pain can be tolerated more easily. The long history of racism in North America causes its pain to be extremely severe. When whites refuse to admit their parts in racism they reject reconciliation. In part it may well be fear to endure the pain that the healing process entails. Author James Baldwin was convinced that “the political injustices brought on by racism began and can only be changed from the level of one’s inner self-awareness.”
Stephen Adubato contributed to America Magazine a window on author James Baldwin and his journey from hatred to healing. It is possible to see oneself in the same window.
As our country confronts yet again violent racism, James Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.https://t.co/075PvRA00t— America Magazine (@americamag) June 5, 2020
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