The race problem is a white problem, not a black pathology.

Evidence

Contrary to what we are told, then, the race problem does not involve understanding the pathologies of black culture, the failures of black families, or the so-called dim intellect of a race. The problem does not entail the question of what black people want. For Baldwin, the problem rested at the feet of white America. All they had to do was look down. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 335

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates and underpins the reader’s thesis about ‘the lie’ — that America’s framing of race as a black problem is itself the lie. — connects to: Baldwin defined racism as the white problem, not the black problem — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 671