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Book descriptionReading Ta-Nehisi Coates (his recent Between the World and Me, his essay on reparations, and everything he posts to his Atlantic.com blog) sent me back to James Baldwin, an important influence on Coates. Id never read Evidence of Things Not Seen, but there it was before me at my town librarys book sale so I brought it home.If youve never read Baldwin, this isnt a good place to start. Its brilliant in places, but its disjointed and fragmentary in others. The book was catalyzed by the murder of almost 30 black children, teenagers, and young adults in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981. When Baldwin wrote -- the book was first published in 1985 -- the case was fresh in peoples minds. Some 30 years later it isnt. Baldwins comments on the trial of Wayne Williams and on Williams himself are enough to create doubt that Williams killed anyone, and certainly not any of the children for whose murders he was never tried, but they dont provide a coherent narrative of Williamss arrest and trial. The 1995 edition of the book, which I dont have, includes a foreword by Derrick Bell with Janet Bell. That might be a better place to start, or by brushing up on the facts of the case.Even if ones memory of the Atlanta case is sketchy at best, the message comes through loud and clear to the reader in 2015: Black Lives Didnt Matter in 1979 any more than they do today, and the contortions that white justice, the white media, and white popular opinion will go through to avoid thinking too hard about this have not changed all that much.Why didnt, and dont, black lives matter to white America? Here is where Baldwin shines, and where Ta-Nehisi Coatess debt to him is clear. Because racism is not an aberration or an unpleasant side effect of the American experiment and the American Dream: its part of their foundation. The real meaning and history of Manifest Destiny, for example, Baldwin writes, is nothing less than calculated and deliberate genocide. Not news to many of us, but look at the shrieking that greets any attempt to include even a watered-down version of that conclusion in high school history books.Whiteness, Baldwin writes, was created by Europeans to justify what they did to peoples who were not, in their view, white enough to matter. And whiteness isnt primarily a matter of color: its a matter of how those in power choose to see you. The Irish did not matter to the English, though their skin showed the same range of colors. The Jews, Roma, and others didnt matter to the Germans. In World War II, Baldwin writes, the West went to war against the monster the West had created, in self-defense and for no other reason (italics in original).Baldwin is profoundly concerned with morality, with the corrosive effects of this history both on those who consider themselves white and on those whose survival depends on emulating whiteness. His indictment of the Christianity practiced by the European enslavers and colonizers is scathing, but equally powerful is his recognition of how black people managed to transform that toxic legacy: The Black preacher . . . was our first warrior, terrorist, or guerrilla. He told us that trouble dont last always. He told us that our children and our elders were sacred, when the Civilized were spitting on them and hacking them to pieces, in the name of God, and in order to keep making money (italics in original).Baldwins style can be challenging. Yes, there are probably too many commas, but the commas slow the reader down. Theres no speeding through this book, which is OK because its only 125 pages long. Its not the best introduction to Baldwins work, but in 2015 its still very much worth reading.The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin fb2 online find book сhapter
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