“One of the things that distinguishes Americans from other people is that no other people have ever been so deeply involved in the lives of black men, and vice versa. This fact faced, with all its implications, it can be seen that the history of the American Negro problem is not merely shameful, it isContinue reading “RKS Literature: The World Will Never Be White Again (James Baldwin)”
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RKS Literature: Negroes and Politicians (James Baldwin)
“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,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Negroes and Politicians (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)
“I am not one of the people who believe that oppression imbues a people with wisdom or insight or sweet charity: though the survival of the Negro in this country would simply not have been possible if this bitterness had been all that he felt. In America life seems to move faster than anywhere elseContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Furious and Bewildered Rage in America (James Baldwin)”
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