Discuss how James Baldwin in “A Letter to my Nephew” proposes to close the “immeasurable distance” between African-Americans and Whites? Please be sure to include why, according to Douglass and Baldwin, this distance exists—white privilege—“It is the innocence that constitutes the crime” and comment on the feasibility of Baldwin’s contention that “The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them, and I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love, for these innocent people have no other hope.”
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