I moved away from America while on the eve of completing my first book. It was a coincidence, but I couldn’t help but fantasise how that small detail connected me with my heroes.
Mine, blessedly, was one of exploration. Always prophetic, Baldwin understood. In a 1977 interview, he recalled: “A lot of young Americans, white or black, rich or poor, have wanted to get away, as a means of getting closer to themselves.”Indeed, I searched for myself and thought I might find me in an unlikely place. I hoped distance would lend me some truths about my home country and its sins. I chose Australia.
I grew hyper-sensitive to each side-eye and rude remark. I awaited the racist confrontation that would certainly soon arrive. But one never did.
My country or our country 🤔
Australia is sick of this cycle of manufactured bullshtt hate & self loathing fairy ‘everything and every I don’t like is racist’ bedtime story. Get over yourself & grow the F K UP.
Interesting article. Us white fellas were not brought up to be racist towards African-Americans. But we were brought up to be racist towards Indigenous people. And that we certainly are.
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