Both, the letter by James Baldwin and the poem by Audre Lorde give us a taste of intimacy, innocence and the sincerity. It’s the concern followed by love and compassion which gives this letter of James a different color. A color filled with generosity, and it actually makes you go deep in the issue and feel it yourself. This letter makes you see the real matter and the hardships that black people have gone through for many years. It’s the racial division, and the abuse used against someone who is just as human being as everyone else and that portrays the whole situation. The poem by Lorde has pretty much the same connotation as the letter of James, it’s just that the poem drowns us deeper and deeper in details, by figuratively feeding us up with the real sufferings, isolation and the brutality system used to impose on black people.
Let me start with the letter – “This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish”. – In this sentence Baldwin explains the innocence of the black community as being a pray of a broader system inherited since the establishment of this great nation. It uses the word ‘perish’ which has a very strong meaning, it expresses the real
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Quote: “who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns” expresses the physical mistreatment such us prostitution as a must to survive, in a society where you’re not allowed to live your own life. Just as James did on the letter by hoping for a better future, Lorde did too on the poem by wishing that one day that withered hope they had would come to a fulfillment. “This illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us”, here Lorde expresses the real brutality forced on black people to not even hope to take any action for their better