“It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of just what effect this mutual contempt has on either side of the public or the politicians who have, indeed, very little to do with each other.) Of all Americans Negroes distrust politicians most, or, more accurately, they have been best trained to expect nothing from them; more than other Americans, they are always aware of the enormous gap between election promises and their daily lives. It is true that promises excite them, but this is not because they are taken as proof of good intentions.”
James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son”, 1955.
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