“I left America because I doubted my ability to survive the fury of the color problem here. I wanted to prevent myself from becoming… merely a negro writer. I wanted to find in what way the specialness of my experience could be made to connect me with other people instead of dividing me from them” (Baldwin 46).

Baldwin thinks he hates America. I think that he is instead blinded by the constant discrimination he faced growing up in 1950’s New York. During all those years he just listened, and he was never taught how to deal with it all. When he realizes that putting distance between himself and the country he hates is a good idea, then he has started the road to recovery. At this point he is about to undergo a big psychological change, much like I’ve been doing during these past six months. I think that this change I have made, while a good distance away from home, is similar to the one Baldwin experienced before discovering his identity.

Baldwin couldn’t take the growing racial tensions in 1950�

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