Letter to James Baldwin

Hey Mr. Baldwin, I’ve read your paper, and sadly not a  lot changed. Race, economics, and society all have a hand in the quality of living. Although these problems were prevalent in your time period today in 2021 those same problems still plague the various systems that comprise common ways of life, with the education system being one of those systems. You said, ” The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not”(A Talk To Teacher) and this doctrine still shows up today, which affects people of color young and old. I believe that the environment that you live in or the race you are should not place a hindrance on your education or general life but if anything it should evolve and enhance. While others may also think this the systems in place have been lacking that upgrade needed and those systematic racial divisions are still very noticeable.