Remove the Curse -- The Unjust Peace -- Once And For All

[ancianita]

James Baldwin for breakfast.

[jmbar2]

1. Very powerful

Thanks for posting.

[ShazamIam]

2. I believe Mr. Baldwin's eloquent and elegant English adds mighty potency & power to his message.

[ancianita]

3. He used it all his life. It's my theory that it's powerful now because whites are now ready for it.

Back then, they were not, no matter how he sounded. Whites thought they could define terms, dissing and dismissing now matter how truthful and compelling. They lived a studied unconsciousness that whites are being forced to shed.

Baldwin wasn't powerful then. But now we've been ready.
Here is a video that had to be hunted down for years before we now find it easily on YouTube -- James Baldwin on Dick Cavett's nighttime talk show.

[ShazamIam]

4. "If you turn your back on this society, you may die!"

Also interesting to note the quote about the most segregated day, Sunday.

Credited to Malcolm X and by others to MLK

I like to use youtube to look up interviews of people who have influenced our life or even my life. It is seemingly endless picnic.


edit: quot / quote

[ancianita]

5. Amen.

Yes, I like to use YouTube interviews like a picnic. I like the way you put it. I do it rarely. But today I'm sharing my James Baldwin picnic -- it's nurturing for everyone caught up in the world of depravity that began centuries ago.

[ShazamIam]

6. Have you watched the Malcolm X debate at Oxford U in 60s?

[ancianita]

7. I might have. I can't recall. If it's on YouTube, I'll check it out. Why do you ask?

[ShazamIam]

8. It is really good, but I am sure I watched a filmed version and now I am only finding audio

on youtube. I want to watch it again. I did find one, Baldwin/Wm. Buckley Jr, 1965 at Oxford Union. I don't think I could stomach Buckley for that long but I think I could enjoy Baldwin serving it back and attacking that evil BircherBa****d.

[ancianita]

9. Hold on.

Here's a short video version of the film. At least it's something.

[ShazamIam]

10. Thank you.

[ancianita]

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