This is my response to a recent criticism of my “point-of-view” approach in my novel Ladyfingers
'An Insight Into Black America'
"You give me this advantage," Baldwin once wrote to his white audience. "Whereas you never had to look at me — because you've sealed me away along with sin and hell and death — my life was in your hands and I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me."
Randal Kenan (editor of Cross of Remption: Balwins uncollected essays) says that as members of the minority, African-Americans are observers of the majority culture — through television, newspapers and pop culture, blacks "are privy to so much about white folks' lives" — but not vice versa.
So there you are….
'An Insight Into Black America'
"You give me this advantage," Baldwin once wrote to his white audience. "Whereas you never had to look at me — because you've sealed me away along with sin and hell and death — my life was in your hands and I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me."
Randal Kenan (editor of Cross of Remption: Balwins uncollected essays) says that as members of the minority, African-Americans are observers of the majority culture — through television, newspapers and pop culture, blacks "are privy to so much about white folks' lives" — but not vice versa.
So there you are….