https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt Discuss your responses and ideas, look back at Baldwin's "Letter," then answer the question and analyze the quote below in the form of a group comment. en-us 2020-12-10 17:09:08 UTC 2020-12-18 17:06:22 UTC hello@padlet.com awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030688 What crime does Baldwin accuse his country of committing?]]> 2020-12-10 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030688 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030692 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030692 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030698 What is the purpose / central message of this letter?]]> 2020-12-10 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030698 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030702 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030702 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030711 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030711 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030712 2020-12-10 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030712 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030720 What does Baldwin say acceptance means? 

]]> 2020-12-10 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030720 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030724 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030724 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030729 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030729 awolfstone https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030733 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 17:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1007030733 https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1010742867 I think we have progressed past the horrific stuff like lynching, Jim crow, blackface, and other horrible things, but I'm finding now that racism has mutated into something that is taught to be bad, but is so intertwined with our system that its everywhere.  We have made a ton of progress against racism, but right now it feels like we're at a standstill]]> 2020-12-11 17:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1010742867 https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1010801245 I think we have we have come pretty far from the 60s but there still is a lot of things that need to be done to stop racial injustice  ]]> 2020-12-11 18:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/awolfstone/i1rvriqnvap44slt/wish/1010801245