James Baldwin & the Illusion of Whiteness
4 min readFeb 13, 2020
I’ve been reading James Baldwin lately and I’ve been turning over certain parts of his essay called “On Being White… And Other Lies” in my mind, struck by how apropos it remains all these years later.
Actually pretty much everything he wrote is/was germane both then and now.
On Being White is short — you can read the full piece here — but he packs in a lot to ponder.
