What solution does James Baldwin offer to end America's racial divide?

The solution offered by
Baldwin in his book, , is an emotional-psychological and
social-consciousness solution to the (many) problems springing from the racial divide. Baldwin
does not advocate a specific course of political action as a concrete plan to erase the
"color line" but rather proposes that an effort to see others for who/what they are is
the best way to assuage the race conflicts in America. 

In the volume's first
essay, "," Baldwin writes to his nephew that black Americans might be called upon to
enact the kind of acceptance he sees as a solution because white Americans cannot reasonably be
expected to do so in mid-century America. 

"There is no reason for you to try to become like white people
and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they
must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that
you must accept them. [...] You must accept them and
accept them with love."

Baldwin expands upon this
argument in the...