And these parties will never be complete without the traditional Kris Kringle or Christmas gift exchanges. But what if each year you keep doing the same old "something soft," "something useful" gift theme and you end up getting another face towel or desk calculator? It gets boring right?
Still, construct narratives we did, sublime narratives born out of desperation and cunning and naivetÉ, born of the kind of innocence James Baldwin so enduringly exposed in his 1963 essayThe Fire Next Time, where he describes, among other descendents of slave owners and slavery defenders, the...