![]() ![]() We have been here before: For James Baldwin, the after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America was met with the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." -James Baldwin Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? ![]() James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. University of Toronto Schools Technology Supplies.University of Toronto Schools Stationery. ![]()
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