95 Theses for Christian Racial & Ethnic Unity: #27

And I am sure that you believe, with me, this paradox: black freedom will make white freedom possible.  Indeed, our freedom, which we have been forced to buy at so high a price, is the only hope of freedom that they have.

James Baldwin, “The Fire This Time: Letter to the Bishop [Desmond Tutu]” (1985), in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Pantheon Books, 2010), 218.  

[Read the Introduction to 95 Theses for Christian Racial & Ethnic Unity here.]