Word: revolutoin
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Baldwin was able to take the strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...
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