“I didn’t want nine toes, I wanted all ten, and I had fucking well had no eyes for Korea. I didn’t see what right I would have to be there, what right anybody had to send my black ass there. I don’t think anybody can really hate his country, I don’t think that is possible; but you can certainly despise the road your country travels, and the people they elect to lead them on that road. If I had been a white man, I would have been ashamed, really, to send a black man to fight for me. But shame is individual, not collective, and, collectively speaking, white people have no shame. They have the shortest memories of any people of the world-which explains, no doubt, why they have no shame.”
James Baldwin, “Just Above My Head”, 1979
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