Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America
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The First Clan Report
M you delve quite deeply into the very brutal realities of things like lynching. I was going to ask a question about this. Were you shocked by what you found? Was it worse than you expected? Or did you have e did you think you had a good understanding of it before you started research in and i was still shocked. A there are, there are aspects of it that are unspeakably shocking, and the first time that you encounter them. So what baldwin said was, it is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and st on their own destruction. And nina, i a, i en doing this for a while. I don't think i'm naive.
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