Begin Again James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Here is the book. Certainly people should pick it up.

It's titled Begin Again, James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own.

Baldwin says that America is always changing, but it never changes, you know? So, you know, it's always moving, but then there's something underneath it that is constant.

So one could say, you know, if you hold the belief that white people matter more than others, that belief looks like, it looks like one thing in the context of slavery. It looks like another in the context of Jim Crow and it looks like another in the context of the first black president. Right? But the belief still obtains across those different historical epics. Right? It's still doing work.

So, you know, we're hearing the lie right now. Right? The way in which it's being reasserted in the face of Black Lives Matter and the challenge to the form of policing in the country. We're hearing it in the defense of Confederate monuments, in the defense of our heritage, in the defense of a certain understanding of America's beginnings. That's a reassertion of the lie that bears a family resemblance to what we've been telling ourselves since our founding.