Do I Really Want to Be Integrated Into a Burning House?

The President, the Burning House, and the Cost of Progress

James Baldwin’s haunting question, “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” reverberates through America’s halls of history, echoing in the lives of those who have been exploited, erased, and experimented upon by a nation that prides itself on liberty and justice for all. To understand the burning house, we must first examine the struct…