The Fire Next Time

What does Baldwin claim to be "the root of my dispute with my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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Baldwin makes this claim when he describes the circumstances of his nephew's birth. "This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish." Later he writes that his nephew faced these circumstances "because you were black and for no other reason."