Word: subhumanity
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Angry Memories. Whatever his greatness, it was thrust upon him. He was born on Jan. 15 nearly 35 years ago, at a time when the myth of the subhuman Negro flourished, and when as cultivated an observer as H. L. Mencken could write that "the educated Negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a Negro. His brain is not fitted for the higher forms of mental
Davis now has graduate students in 118 fields, from art to range management to thermodynamics. A thriving new engineering college is keyed to California's thriving aerospace industry. By 1965, Davis will boast the world's largest colony of subhuman primates (10,000 animals for biomedical research) and a Big Science cyclotron costing $2,257,000. By 1970, it expects to have law and medical schools...
...quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly rotting lives, the wit honed to a cutting edge on iron bars...
...wreak vengeance on the "white devil." Visiting the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Baldwin found himself wanting to defend his white friends. "I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman." When he left, he felt that he and Elijah "would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies." The Muslim, fantasy of achieving power disturbed Baldwin. "I could have hoped that the movement had been able to inculcate in the demoralized Negro population a truer and more individual sense...
Juliette has just left her country home to marry the captain (Jean Daste), moving from one narrow atmosphere to another. Pere Jules' room, though the most cluttered, suggests wide horizons and exotic places to the innocent young wife, just as Pere Jules, though subhuman, represents the furthest reaches of human experience, particularly on a sensual level. He enchants her with his stories, and then wrestles here roughly into bed. The cats leap about hysterically...