General Discussion

because it was the first book that really told me, informed me, about being AA in the U.S. And though I had already read, The Autobiography of Malcom X, and I had thought Malcom had informed me. I was wrong. Malcom is still a favorite of mine, but James Baldwin has, in my library of information, made the message more real to me than, or more complete. Toni Morrison belongs in this rare group that squeezes comprehension of the terrible and race backed crimes unleashed in a constant denial by nearly all of us.

Carefully, deliberately, cruelly especially following the advances of the 60s, the conservative White leadership in this nation struck back so hard they have now delivered us back to the Jim Crow era, violence included and mostly carried out by law enforcement, official violent oppression and denial.