Word: baldwinism
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...thing so difficult to communicate is the difference between my experience as a black man and your experience as white people," novelist James Baldwin said last night. He spoke in the Christ Church parish house...
...Baldwin emphasized the relation beteen the Negro and white apprehension of the world. Recalling that "I choked on the words of the 'Star Spangled Banner'" he talked about the difference between the America a white sees and America as perceived by a Negro...
...response to a question asking why the Negro intellectual "doesn't do violence to the people that have done him such wrong," Baldwin amplified this point...
...these terms that Baldwin criticized the United States relation to Cuba, and with African and Asian nations. "We must learn that it is no longer a matter of missionaries bringing a torch to the natives. We have to learn that this is a matter of life and death for the world as we know...
...Then Baldwin discussed his own relationship to this country, and the reasons for his criticisms of it. "If you accept the fact that I refuse to get out of this country--that it is my country as much as anyone else's--then you must realize that I won't live in it as the ward of the white people. I will accept my full responsibility for its future...