Glaude begin again5/27/2023 “I was wrong, and given my lifelong reading of Baldwin, it was an egregious mistake.” “White America would never elect such a person to the highest office in the land,” he writes in his new book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” recalling what he told himself in 2016. For Glaude, a Trump presidency was completely unfathomable until it actually happened. This, mind you, preceded Donald Trump plowing through the primaries to become the Republican nominee. Under the watch of the first black president, Glaude wrote, “black people have suffered tremendously.” A Democratic machine that took black voters for granted had convinced Glaude that the only way forward would be an “electoral blank-out.” He called on black Americans to turn out in record numbers again in November 2016 and cast a vote for “none of the above.” Glaude Jr., a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton, had just published “Democracy in Black,” his blistering indictment of the Obama era. It’s hard enough to think back four months, much less four years, but try to recall the early weeks of 2016 - another time, another planet.Įddie S.
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