White America’s lie instills near-ineradicable self-hatred in Black Americans

Evidence

During these years, Baldwin worked relentlessly to vomit up what he called “the profound, almost ineradicable self-hatred” America had lodged in his guts, a sickness that had started in his childhood home. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 151

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the inner wound from America’s lie that the book’s argument traces through Baldwin’s life.