My Turkish tales: A respite from being black in America ...Kuwait

Lawrence Cenk Laws explores how - like Baldwin decades earlier - being in Turkey rested his mind and heart from the divisiveness and corrosiveness of American politics. During my studies in Istanbul I was posed the same question many times: Why Turkey? My Turkish friends found it odd that an American would leave the Land of Opportunity to seek an education there. My American friends were more concerned about my safety. The reasons both sides were asking may be different, but the answer is the same - because I'm black; blackness - a concept as American as apple pie and as foreign to Turks as, well, apple pie. As the fight for racial equality in the US has reached a tipping point this

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