Presciently and timely 1994 interview with Author Walter Mosley #racism #in America Introduction to Interview Crime novelist Walter Mosley writes out of a need to show how race may dominate people’s way of seeing life. His portrayal of the detective, Easy Rawlins expresses, in a moving and profound way, the experience of a black man living in the white world of Los Angeles during the beginning years of the second half of the 20th century. Easy, as the narrative’s protagonist, acts out of a knowing awareness of how a rigid, racially-narrow social order can rule life. He embodies a compassionate and wise understanding of convention’s unjust realities. And perhaps he also now leaves us a gift: a perceptive, reflective window through which to gaze upon our present, national tragedies of prejudice and racial hatred. Let us together hope that now and in the future we might “seek good, and not evil, that you may live; … Hate evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate” (Amos 5:...