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The New YorkerReligion Letter from a Region in My Mind verified_publisherThe New Yorker - James BaldwinFrom 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” Take up the White Man’s burden— Ye dare not stoop to less— Nor call...
