“A Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin. An essay that makes you realize how racism plays out basically the same way today as it did in 1953.

Quote:

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them

Stranger in the Village, which can be read outside of pay walls here.

In keeping with the history of European white supremacy of my people, I am permitting myself to arrogantly add a final last sentence to end this truly eye-opening essay:

“In fact, the world was never white in the first place”