But time passed, and now whether I like it or not, I can not only describe myself but, what is much more horrifying, I can describe YOU! Now this is why in this country which we call the leader of the West, there is such confusion. And maybe I loved being described by you. I am trying to explain that I, speaking now again as a black man, have been described by you for thousands of years.
The sun did set on the British Empire, and there won’t be any more British gunboats down the Chinese rivers. The truth is that whether I like it or not is absolutely irrelevant. We hear this from people who have no concern with states’ right, and still less with freedom, but who simply want to perpetuate a system which is doomed. “One of the great confusions, again, is the nonsense that we hear about states’ rights. A great many people do not live this way and cannot imagine it and do not know that when we talk about “democracy,” this is what we mean.” No other country can afford to dream of a Plymouth, and a wife, and a house with a fence, and the children growing up safely to go to college and to become executives - and then to marry and have the Plymouth and the house, and so forth. “ What I’m trying to say to this country, to us, is that we must know this, we must realize this, that no other country in the world has been so fat and so sleek, and so safe, and so happy, and so irresponsible, and so dead for twenty years. A Quote From James Baldwin’s The Cross of Redemption
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