Through “A Letter To My Nephew” and my research, I have found that, although there has been some racial progress through the years, racial issues still exist today. But in the claims of James Baldwin, white people have created them. In a video interview, Baldwin expresses the idea that white people have created the concept of a nigger, because they were afraid of something. He knows that he is not a nigger, so he relays it back on the white community and says, “You’re the nigger, baby, it isn’t me” (Baldwin). The word nigger was invented to separate the whiteness and threaten. The only way to abolish all racial problems is to finally accept African Americans, because in reality the only difference is skin color. White people are no better or
