Will America Double Down On Its Ugliness?

And at the end of Baldwin's 1972 important book No Name in the Street, likens us to midwives trying to give birth to a new America. And every time, Amy, every time we are at this moment where we can give birth to a different way of being in this country, a different multiracial America, the umbilical cord of white supremacy is wrapped around the baby’s neck, and it chokes the life out of it.