King’s murder revealed white America’s debasement to Baldwin

Evidence

Instead, what shocked him was the fact that white America killed someone who espoused love, an apostle of nonviolence. King’s death revealed the depths of their debasement and the scope of our peril. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 232

Categorization

• XREF: The shock that love itself was killed — not rage — is a distinctive Baldwin point that anchors the late-essay worldview the reader is defending.