The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 4th study session on Leanita McClain's posthumously published A Foot In Each World. McClain was an exceptional representation of the potency and significance of black journalists. She had articles published in the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. She generally used her columns to examine how Racism impacted black people. She succumbed to suicide in May of 1984 at the age of 32. Her suicide note reveals the degree to which White Supremacy destroyed her mental health. She wrote: "Do not try to pull my back into this world. I will never live long enough to see my people free anyway." A Foot In Each World is a compilation of her poetry and essays that was edited by her former husband Clarence Page. Examining her work chronologically offers insight on her evolving understanding of Racism as well as her personal sorrow. It seems that her fear of being rejected or vilified by other black people was a regular source of grief. She also seemed to harbor hopes and heartache over a few "Good Whites." Last week we reviewed her support for pardoning Marcus Garvey and her defense against releasing classified documents on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her piece, "The Wart On Chicago's face," reveals many of the well-founded trepidation that Black Chicagoans had about the Racist response to election of Mayor Harold Washington; in this essay, McClain captures the identical energy and anxiety of President Obama's 2008 run for the White House. #BlackMentalHealth INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p