![]() “How do we muster the courage to keep on fighting in the face of abject moral failure?” He turned to him now with serious intent. Recognizing his own despair, Glaude thought of James Baldwin and his loss of hope after the collapse of the Civil Rights movement and later with the election of Ronald Reagan, which represented for him “the justification of history, their sense of innocence.” Glaude had read much of Baldwin in earlier years. ![]() ![]() In fact, there were significant numbers of people, given permission by Trump’s racially coded language and bellicosity, who not only voted, but began to say out loud and publicly act on their racial bigotry. ![]() There had not been, as we might have thought, much progress in tolerance, acceptance, and even fellowship between different races and communities in America. Though he primarily writes of religion and race in America², the election of Donald Trump in 2016, with its strong strains of white supremacy, was for him, as for many, a sharp unsettling. ![]() is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. ![]()
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