Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.
That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had,
equally, made them that way. But knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was
folly.
What emerging solution to his problem does Baldwin recognize?
O The riots were necessary.
• Memory serves
an important purpose.
O Feeling hatred is unproductive.
• His father wes
right to be bitter.