https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59 Add your group's notes to the Padlet under the appropriate column. en-us 2020-12-10 16:13:53 UTC 2026-01-01 16:47:51 UTC hello@padlet.com awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006753867 Considering this letter was written in the 1960s, how far do you think we’ve come in America on the issue of racial equality and how far do you think we have to go? What do you think has pushed us forward or held us back?]]> 2020-12-10 16:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006753867 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006753879 What crime does Baldwin accuse his country of commiting?]]> 2020-12-10 16:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006753879 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006862825 What does Baldwin say acceptance means? 

]]> 2020-12-10 16:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006862825 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006864357 Paragraph 3: "[I]t is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime."

]]> 2020-12-10 16:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006864357 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006881695 What is the purpose / central message of this letter?]]> 2020-12-10 16:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006881695 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006883757 Paragraph 4: "I hear the chorus of the innocents screaming, 'No, this is not true. How bitter you are,' but I am writing this letter to you to try to tell you something about how to handle them, for most of them do not yet really know that you exist."]]> 2020-12-10 16:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006883757 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006888657 Paragraph 8: "You must accept them and accept them with love, for these innocent people have no other hope. They are in effect still trapped in a history which they do not understand and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it."]]> 2020-12-10 16:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006888657 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006889119 Consider Baldwin’s solution to the problem of racism. In your opinion, does Baldwin’s letter contain useful advice for protecting his nephew’s self-worth? Explain your opinions.]]> 2020-12-10 16:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006889119 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006897897 Paragraph 11: "You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention and by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality."]]> 2020-12-10 16:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006897897 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006982813 2020-12-10 16:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/5c7izea04u0fjy59/wish/1006982813