Was an impactful declaration from one of our Country's most absorbing writers,Jame Baldwin.Who the author of : Born Again { 2020 } by Eddie Glaude Jr. maintains virtually " willed himself to be a writer ". Baldwin { who I've mentioned a few times at PF } was Born in a rough section of Harlem,and went off to Europe { Paris } to work on his art,his craft.As a writer.Like Hemingway and The Lost Generation. What should not be lost is the impactful context of what Baldwin lived to write about and today.That being " to bear witness to the difficult truth of Race in America today ". Baldwin was ahead of his time.He was much concerned even consumed over how Black Lives Matter.However his path to acknowledgement was wholly different.It was based in the human condition.As with most gifted writers. - Notes of a Native Son - { 1955 } " A devotion to humanity ... is too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause,and Causes.as we know,are notoriously bloodthirsty." " At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro,in order to be able to live with himself." Quite right ... Except ... That bridge runs in both directions. Again ... No Human was born ... EVER ... deciding their race. Or their sex. N'cest pas ... Y'all. Y'all come back now.Take yer shoes off.Sit a spell.
Malcom X, and his supporters would probably conclude that you are "alright" with them. "I should like to ask Malcolm X. two questions. The first, what is his opinion of the Jewish problem and the solidarity of Jews and Negroes against racism? The second, if he knows the names of Lincoln, Wilberforce, Garrison, John Brown and others and what is his opinion of these gentlemen?" "Malcolm: Most white people who profess to be for the Negro struggle are usually with it as long as they are nonviolent. And they're the ones who encourage them to be nonviolent, to love their enemies, and turn the other cheek. For those who are genuinely for the freedom of the black man-- as far as we're concerned, they're alright." Malcom X, By Any Means Necessary, Malcom X, Betty Shabazz and Pathfinder Press, 1992. p.115.
