White America’s refusal to hear the truth forced Black strategy to be remade.

Evidence

It began to be very clear to black people in the United States that what Time magazine calls “the troubled American” is not going to listen, does not want to know, does not want to hear the truth about the situation of the American black. And one of the results of that is that everybody involved in it has to rethink his situation, to rethink his strategy. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 382

Categorization

• XREF: This is Baldwin’s own 1969 framing of what the reader calls ‘the after times’ — the failed reckoning that forces strategic rethinking.