Nick Martin
Nick Martin is a Sappony writer and editor. His roots are in North Carolina, his body is in Washington, DC, and his heart is in Brooklyn. This is his first publication in The Sun. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Deadspin.
Crossroads
Imani Perry on the South’s Vital Place in America’s Identity
The South is made to carry the nation’s slop jar. That’s deliberate, because then the United States doesn’t have to actually contend with all of its violence. We just put the blame on that region where bad stuff happens and where those backward people are. I don’t think it’s incidental, either, that it is the Blackest region culturally (and demographically) speaking. So it is at once seen as the most racist and the Blackest.
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