Word: baldwinism
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...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
Programs devoted to smoking and cancer, birth control, Norman Mailer, Sol Hurok and student political activity have been arbitrarily canceled; now Korn insists that James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte will not suffice for a show on the American Negro. Since Susskind refuses to enlarge the panel, Korn has called a press conference at which their association will probably be "severed with deep regret...
Perhaps it will be argued--James Baldwin may have so intimated--that no Negro can be happy or fulfilled in any current milieu. Negro or white. My own experience leads me to believe that this is simply untrue. It is more difficult for the Negro (many whites find it hard), but it can be done. Fulfillment is a function not of race or condition but of temperament. It is not necessary to the cause of Negro rights to hang a load of guilt on the Negro who seeks some solace in the here...
...Fire Next Time, Baldwin...
...Atlanta, Georgia, one of the nation's important centers of Negro education, distinctions in social position and point of view are far more important than the spiritual generality which Mr. Baldwin perceives. There are rich and poor, exclusive and excluded, professionals, laborers, domestics and unemployed. Within the academic community there are the intellectually concerned and the financially preoccupied. To talk of the "spirit of the Negro people" in Atlanta is to ignore the presence of a rigidly structured Negro society, led by an upper crust as jealous of its privileges, as pretentious and snobbish, as any upper crust anywhere...