Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.
That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had,
equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was?
folly.
What emerging solution to his problem does Baldwin recognize?
O The riots were necessary.
• Memory serves an important purpose.
O Feeling hatred iS unproductive.
O His father was right to be bitter.
