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James Baldwin understood that the American Dream could not be examined solely through its promises of prosperity and freedom. Its deeper meaning rested in the distance between the nation’s professed ideals and the experiences of those excluded from their fulfillment. In retrospect, Baldwin’s examination of America remains an unsettling measure of the country’s unfinished moral and democratic obligations.
June 2020 AM If you haven’t read the 1963 non-fiction book “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin, you might get your copy of profound observances and discernment. The writings by Baldwin exposes dire starkness to the African-American experience in America and a possible correlation steering George Floyd’s untimely appointment to destiny that will assign his sacrifice as an unsolicited …
