Personal moral self-examination is the precondition for political change

Evidence

Baldwin remained committed to the idea that the disaster of our private lives shaped our public witness. We have to work on ourselves, if we are to live up to the kind of world we want to create. The props and crutches that have supported our individual identities in this country have been knocked from under our arms and feet. We have to make of ourselves a new creation without them. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on the book’s stated thesis that ‘the after times’ requires confronting the lie within before the national lie. — connects to: Critical self-examination is the first stage of feminist politicization; Rethinking political ethics requires revising assumptions about human sociability — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 565; Therapeutic self-awareness has been stripped of its collectivising political potential — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1372 (+2 more)