“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” REST IN POWER MR BALDWIN
it took years for me to know that we are just people. since 8 years old as an american who's only friends were black americans, I knew almost certainly that people who are vunerable are going to be targeted by the masses even thier own, and will be loked down upon. people even still think I cannot compete with a real white man at the job, or are astonished at my english and ability to blend in, but not black people. even though the whole hood knows this albanian who grew up in foster care here since eight. i sat at the back of the classroom with the blacks and puerto ricans through school elementry through middle school, and then went to the most ghetto as said high school. still, I am no different as a person who is myself as I am then if my country did not exile and murder us. you are not a failure. only your actions can fail. you are a child to God no matter your religion or race or tribe. I am a christian because of all those good people who were looked at by whites as less of a person because of the love they have for people in general. One thing I know is humans in struggle and desperation will stick together to survive. humans are just humans and no one has a better soul than you. you are complete. money and property cant go with you to the next life and your words of love and respect to others will feed the youth.
here is the truth... Individuals can act racist but politically the only tolerated systemic racism is by the Democratic party.... A) against asians and whites as 1) quotas 2) affirmative action and 3) identity politics and B) against blacks and hispanics as 1) welfare dependency, 2) limited public school choices (vouchers, charter schools and school choice) and improper public school management by teacher unions, 3) Democrat party founded police unions deals with their Democrat mayors and Democrat city officials to cover up or under and overcharge officers (murder 1 charge instead of manslaughter to get officers off) by the Democrat district attorney to avoid their convictions, 4) selectively targeting minorities for abortions and 5) controlling the system to fostering single mother child rearing.... all with the narrative that the Democratic party cares about people of color, children and women.
I love his mother’s statement of “I didn’t know [he would be so successful], but I knew he had to write”. If all parents could be this supportive of their kids growing up we would probably see a lot less strife on this planet.
Most successful people do have parents like that.. some are a little more enthusiastic, like Joe Jackson.. but what you can't say is that he failed in creating extremely talented musicians
I'd like to believe that most parents do think this way. They want their children to seek out something they are passionate about and if it can't pay their bills they find a side hustle that helps to do that while pursuing that passion. It's what I've encouraged my kids to do.
Baldwin is someone who should be taught in schools. Such an unwavering voice in the face of all those that wanted to silence him. Probably one of the most inspirational writers to ever walk the earth.
Tell DeSantis that. .Florida seems to think that talking about slavery will make white children ashamed. Instead of using men like Baldwin to explain how this experience effects is, they would rather ignore that it ever happened. The whole world sees how we treat black folks, and we will never be the super power we claim until we address it.
Let’s see if De Santis makes him required reading in Florida. More likely he doesn’t even know who Baldwin is. If he found out, De Santis would ban Baldwin’s books from every school and library in the state.
I’m in a school district in CALIFORNIA and we cannot teach Baldwin or any other Harlem Renaissance author if any of the works contain the “n” work - and as most of their works do - because it’s in their personal experience to have experienced racism, and therefore their works are banned.
Don't wanna say this but the pink people are in big big trouble in future. God will judge rightly and the pink people will realize that God is not like them lmaoooo
@@ronselva9837 did you know that england paid off a loan to end slavery from 1860 something paid of 2014 or something 160 year loan can you believe that
@@giovanniford123 Ehhh.... no. The 13th amendment abolished slavery and was passed by the American people by their democratically elected representatives. How is it that you think the 13th is in conflict with what I said??
The man was charming and sophisticated as hell, but never had a problem articulating his abhorrence for Racism and he was brutally honest to anyone who asked. Nothing but admiration for his contribution to the black diaspora.
The back of the plane, the class seating economy section, exists today. Racism is part of classism. The powers that be are scared of the poor and workung poor,the majority, uniting. It will be the poor black children and the poor white children and holding hands first, teaching the world how to live the beautiful dream. Paper pyramids can't purchase the dream. Pyramid pushers loathe the dream. People putting away their pride and pulling up sleeves to help each other, I'm so proud that this man spoke truly here without hate and venom. God bless him.
@@trulifrea8073 They are still feeding you that nonsense and you are still believing it. It's all bull and also an excuse for why there is no moving forward still stuck in the past.
“Nobody wants a writer until he’s dead.” James Baldwin was a name I remember hearing in school, but this is the first time I hear him speak. I’m grateful for coming across this video. What a loss it would have been to not have picked up his words.
@Zelonia Ford nice kid, a bit misdirected. Somebody forgot to tell him it that the foundation of slavery in the Americas rested on 'black' people capturing and selling other 'black' people into slavery. In addition, he isn't to keen when it comecto geography. The 'black' slaves transported to the Americas were from West Africa. Thousands of miles from Egypt or Israel. A totally different people with a different culture. It's like applying judaism to the Australian Aborigines. It is absurdly out of context.
@@MrBlackbolt1 Calling James Baldwin "kid"... please. He's talking about the climate in this country, who sold the slaves has nothing to do with the lasting racial effects slavery has had within the country.
@Zach Martell 'Black' people are the crux and foundation of the SELLING of slaves into SLAVERY in the Americas. There are no slaves or slavery in the Americas without that. WE, if 'we' are to keep referring to 'blacks' as a collective, DID IT. Now, YOU and all of you collective 'blacks' want to run away from that hideousness ugly and place all the blame on white people. There was slavery in Africa centuries before slavery in the Americas. Thats why the Europeans went to Africa to get slaves. Guess what... there is still slavery in Africa today. Black Muslim tribes still invade, enslave other blacks today. Remember Boko Haram. You've been tricked into becoming a racist. Hating based upon race when NO 'race' is clean.
It's a crime that this man isn't taught in schools. I discovered James by the time I was 30. An absolute crime. The opening monologue in The Fire Next Time, made me tear in a way I've never teared before.
Same... I was 33 when I heard of THIS James Baldwin. Went to school with a brotha named James Baldwin Jr. Dad was Sr. I was shocked hearing and not knowing about this historical legend.
Me too! I felt so cheated. Strangely enough I found him just before the pandemic started and immediately emerged myself in his writings...then George Floyd was murdered. I was fortunately prepared to beginning to understand. I completely agree with you in which I felt so cheated that I didn't learn about him long ago. I'm constantly amazed at the relevance of his thoughts still to this day. America has such a long way to go.😔
@@200x-v4k Ok. Ty for sharing. Your opinion on the subject is obviously unshared in this particular comment thread. Omg..I just hate the arrogance social media has given to some people🤦🏾🙄
At one time his books were required reading in NYC when I went to school in the sixties Richard Wrights Native Son and Black Boy were also required reading later on the books of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison became suggested or required black reading
It pains me to see the number of ignorant and racist comments on this thread. Baldwin is undeniably one of the greatest American writers but it seems some folks are too blinded by their hatred and limited by their ignorance to see that. This man deserves our RESPECT.
My favourite part of this was finding out he bought a Manhattan apartment building for his whole family to live in together 👌🏾 I hope they still own it
It definitely applies to the critical race theory-denying white right who want American history to be a fairy tale that caters to their racial narcissism.
You'll never know who you are as long as white American can keep you hyphenated American, the first BLACK Edison, the first BLACK Chopin, the first BLACK Einstein, the first BLACK WOMAN to head the world's largest corporation, when she is the first WOMAN.
@Exceptional life before you go too far in the wrong direction, remember, it was Adam who said, "I was naked." Genesis 3:10. God would not call you naked. Let alone a color. So it's on me to figure that out.
I learned about James Baldwin in high school in New Jersey when I did a book report on his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain for my sophmore year English class. It was one of the books that a great influence in my life. My English teacher was both surprised and impressed at my book selection. An old man now, I live in Florida and I'm filled with sadness that there are high school kids that probably wont get to read this mans work.
James Baldwin said f, "America". He went to Paris, Nina Simone followed him. He was Maya Angelou's best friend. They lived in Ghana at one time. Lift the Ancestors up!🙏🙏
Paris is so racist. The Netherlands is fantastic- racist I'm certain but my experience there was life changing. In think of going back, for good. Germany is a hole.
@@KingofgraceSARA I’ve lived in the Netherlands since I was a little child. I’m curious to know why you find the Netherlands fantastic? Is it better than the US or do you feel more safe? Celebrated? My experiences as a black woman is quite different here, the racism has started from a young age and till today I’ve had to experience it. I was born on a island (just for reference).
Nobody wants pure genuine honest to God in your face truth from a true artist or writer who is extremely stong fierce and Brown. Not to mention oppressed- big elephant in the room that grows on and on to the point chaotic explosion ( the whole community).
Mr. Baldwins eyes are so expressive and filled with sorrow. I've come to realize some people on this planet are so intelligent and altruistic that it exudes from every pore! And I'm not speaking of book knowledge either. Their thinking transcends their real time, place and environment they currently live in. You cannot hold them back or down. They hold you spellbound when they speak. They will be known throughout history. Mr. Baldwin is one of those people!
"I dont know you personally but I know you historically....You can't swear to the freedoms of mankind and at the same time put us in chains" Well said Mr Baldwin
@@jaredoldhouser3301 A false equivalence. So are you saying that what white america has done and is doing is for some reason morally justified? This, your comment, is exactly his point of not facing the issue.
I love the works of James Baldwin. My brother lives in Florida and when he went to work on an assignment setting up an internet network for a school about last year he parked by the service entrance of a school. On the side of the school lot were some large totes filled with books. My brother curious looked in one of the totes and realized these books were books taken out of the school library. A few books were by James Baldwin. It occurred to him that these books were being banned. My brother grabbed as many books as he could mostly by James Baldwin and other authors of note and took them home where he proudly displays them and how he is grateful his kids have grown up and didn't have to witness the disgusting turn of events that have befallen Florida due to their idiotic politics.
Thank ur brother from me, I love his books, mind, personality & he knows/loves his people, very timely comment as this is National Banned Book Week, his mom reminds me of Mrs. Shirley Chisholm! 😇☮💜📚
I was in a bookstore here in the SW, and recently saw on the shelf, that a Maya Angelou book had been ban as well. Then the next DaY, while in the library, I overheard a whyte lady ask for it, and they said they didn’t have it. Just perhaps, she wanted to read it and see why it was banned… “I Don’t Know Why The Cage Birds Sing.” These controlling Yurugu’s! 👿👿👿 The jig is up!!! The LIGHT is now revealing all the darken spaces & places.
We had an excellent African-American literature studies at State University in Georgia and of course I feel enriched by the studies and now many years later I still long for my college textbook for that class taught by Professor Cyrus ,PhD (R.I.P.).
You mean they removed from school library books that advocate homosexuality? The world must be ending! Poor kids do t know how to get a card in public library!
@@imperialstrategies6065 Calm down and regroup buddy, youre headed for a cliff lol. Families in America are dead and don't support their kids while they get themselves established? Ever heard of college? That's one of the most basic common things families do, were you trying to be funny or make some other point that i missed?
Wow, how incredibly eloquent and humble. I could listen to this man for hours. You can look into this mans eyes and know he's not lying about his experience, expressive, painful, and sad. This type of man is what a leader looks like, something I have yet to see in my generation.
"If you're trying to AVOID reality, how can you face it" "YOU CAN'T have it both ways: can't swear to freedoms for all man kind, and keep me in chains" "🎯🎯🎯
While he's speaking, his eyes seem to be instantly processing everything around him. It's as if he's seeing and understanding much more than he could ever talk about at that moment. When his mother said she knew he had to write, it's like she was talking about the inevitability that his reality had to be expressed. His energy was almost an irresistible force that couldn't possibly be contained.
Why do you write like you’re running out of time? This is an astute observation. I’ve noticed this and never had a way to put it into words. Thank you.
I almost see the eye movement as more a scanning of his own mental map, trying to find the correct articulation to at once perfectly eloquent his thoughts, and keep up with them.
Yeah, this statement I need to hang on the wall or the fridge but I Need to see it regularly. Sure glad I watched this. Especially as an adult. Back then and as a teen Baldwin and frankly a lot of people were considered a bit radical just for being REAL. It might have caused a peculiar type of looking within but if one had that courage..a lot of eye opening for a caucasian teen.
Every statement he made is quotable and should always be remembered, even as a post-it note you stick to a refrigerator or just write in big letters on paper you tape to a bedroom mirror or make it on a t- shirt. Powerful.
This mos def applies to life in 2021. A very wise observation. Problem is most of the people currently doing the hate, seem to think it is righteous hate, and justified, hate is encouraged as woke.
"Giovanni's Room" had a HUGE impact on me, when I read it as a very young man, almost half a century ago.! It's how I was introduced to Baldwin's work.
"Somethings happened to me because I was human, and somethings happened because I was black". This hit different hearing it here, I think most people especially in today's era miss this part of things, being able to take a moment and reflect is important not just to be sure but to hold oneself to account and be responsible.
I think you are misinterpreting what he was trying to say. He was commenting on the idea that after living in a country where blackness is a burden that is stigmatized and oppressed it was challenging to be able to see himself accurately as just Jimmy without the shame and self hatred he had been taught by american culture.
Stupid and obvious statement. And not even relevant. We have confronted it and relegated it to the reash heap of history where it belongs. Stop whining about slavery and oppression. Modern day myths used to explain the failure of black America to succeed on any level.
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@@fondrees who is we have confronted these situations. Tell that to the families of young black men gunned down over a minor traffic violation. It's been written that 2/3rd's of heathens and gentiles won't make it into the kingdom for lack of knowledge and belief. Get off your knees, you seem to be in denial.I imagine you could still be invited to the neighborhood BBQ.
He stated that he didn't have much choice. We are all masters of our fate. If we think this is not so, we are victims but have something to gain from it, or think we do.
I don’t believe that @ all. Of all the nations of the world where slavery existed (i.e.: ALL the nations of the world) I can’t think of another that has dealt w/ their past history of slavery more completely than the US of A. Now....whether this was done voluntarily - or, more likely, bc of such strong & Articulate - & BRAVE - men like James Baldwin - who demanded we confront this history - it does not matter. It has been done - & it continues to be confronted. However, their has been a poisonous hypocrisy unleashed in this country that is clinging to a rewritten history and promoting an exaggerated sense of how we see each other today - &, sadly, it’s all perpetrated by the same devils who were originally the sole perpetrators of the original crime. (The Democratic Party - “Wolves in Sheep’s clothing!) Peace to all....
Why do white Americans always try to deflect back to slavery and how everyone had slaves and how Africans sold their own people? What about all the horrendous acts laws and terrorism after slavery the treatment of the freed slaves the deliberate oppression what’s the excuse of the evilness that came after slavery? Were most white people Democrats cuz it seems like racist were the majority, i mean not saying there weren’t white people that didn’t like what was going on but it seems like a majority were cool with it.
@@brajeharris3091 one word: guilt. They killed Malcolm ecause he was preparing to take them before the United Nations and then the world court and prove we weren’t the worlds savior from dictatorships and genocide, but just like everyone else.
James had a tremendous amount of strength and bravery to confront so many of his issues and society’s issues. Also to go through the process of differentiating which issues were his and which ones were societies. Carl Jung said if you don’t acknowledge and confront your shadow, your shadow will manifest itself in you.
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@@SKBoard-rj2zm The adjective "black." Some people, consciously racist or not, might take that as, "Yeah, but he's not as much of a genius as white geniuses like Fitzgerald, Dickinson, etc."
@@SKBoard-rj2zm It's like if I say to a woman, "You're a beautiful Asian woman." She might take offense to that: "Why aren't I just a beautiful woman? I'm not as beautiful as black or white women?"
Honestly I think he's our best intellectual. He is our relative, and he said things that needed to be said, and that are vitally true. Also he came to terms with some things I've heard no one else explicitly describe, like the embattled point of view where self-hatred becomes a more likely than not point of view and it is necessary to consciously come up with a way forward or be immersed in that undefined hatred. If you are a religious person his sexuality becomes a thorn in your side. But he is a known quantity, he is not hiding anything. There is a lot of honor in that. Honestly he is a great man.
YOU STILL HAVE SECRETS WHEN YOUR USING A LIE TO JUSTIFY YOUR POINTING A FINGER IN JUDGMENT!!!! ONE OF SATAN'S BIGGEST QUALITIES IS "ACCUSING THE BRETHREN NIGHT AND DAY"!!!! YOU ARE NOT BLACK... THAT IS A LIE FROM SATAN!!!! YOU ARE A LIGHT BEING OF ENERGY, MASKED AND HIDING FROM ALMIGHTY GOD!!!!! YOU WANT PEACE... LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND GET RIGHT WITH ALMIGHTY GOD!!!! THEN YOU'LL CLEARLY BE ABLE TO SEE THROUGH THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!! CLEARLY THIS MAN DID NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT, FOR IT IS A SPIRIT OF ALL TRUTH!!!!! ALL FLESHLY BEASTS MUST CONSUME ENERGY TO SURVIVE... IF YOU ARE CONSUMING ENERGY FROM ANOTHER, THAT IS AN ACT OF MURDER AND WAR AGAINST ALMIGHTY GOD!!!!! THAT IS WHAT MAKES EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD EVER BORN GUILTY AND IN NEED OF SAVING!!!! SAVING FROM YOUR OWN SELF!!!!!
I love how when he was at his family’s house in Manhattan they were all quiet and listening NO DISRESPECT or anything, they all looked up to him and respected him and I shall go on a search for all his books. I will find them 🧡✨
@@tomquinn607 - Or, apparently, you act that way around your wealthy family & “friends.” That thought never crossed my mind. My family was not wealthy, & some downright poor. But we loved & respected them nonetheless. Contrary to your avaricious beliefs, many of us do not “love” or “respect” someone for their monetary status & what it may someday possibly bring us.
@@tomquinn607 no they don't. "they" always act that way when "they" are raised to be respectful and have a sense of learning from elders and a sense of self respect
Baldwin remains among the most fierce, unfiltered, truthful writers of American literature. Absolutely amazing artist. "There never was a chance." ....damn. Words can't express the painful wisdom
@@ethanfleisher1910 he was while in college I was assigned to read books from his writtings and the college professors where from american literature and English class ...amazing books
Was introduced to James Baldwin in college English class. Will never forget the line "To seek a minor sun." It was describing a bug seeking warmth under a street light as winter moved in. Brilliant.
This was a very powerful story. Baldwin, was the truth and he was a truth teller. That's why they didn't want this to be out at that time. Point Blank!!!
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It is good to see the love as he speaks with the kids - turning that boy's head toward him as Baldwin addresses him, as though to say "We can't talk unless we see each other." His honesty always hits home, makes each of us hope to be better, and feel the duress of bringing our conflicted nation to its senses.
Baldwin: “I don’t have anything against you because I don’t know you personally but I do know you historically” To the people who say “I nor my family ever owned slaves” or “ I didn’t have anything to do with what happened hundreds of years ago” If you can, think about what J. Baldwin said to his interviewer in the presence of his family. POWERFUL!!!!!!
@Roger Washington your family came over and benefitted from a country that thrived because of slave labor. Obviously their situation here was much better than in Europe or else they would’ve stayed there, so nice try.
Baldwin is the greatest rediscovery in my adult life. He once said “I’m past the crime!”. That’s why he can freely articulate racism without the emotional baggage that seeks to avoid it.
This was deep, deep, deep. He is so gifted in using his words to communicate truth. He was a master at describing emotions and systems in such a concrete way, it literally lands in your soul, you open your eyes and there it is, immutable truth. On top of it he is so dignified and warm all at once; phenomenal.
" I have nothing against you personally. I dont even know you personally..... But I know you, historically.." That hit me like a brick. And in that moment, it became clear to me how easily history dictates perceptions of people and groups.
@@natbrownizzle1387 Hes not Romanian. He is not living in Romania. Hes not talking about Romanian culture. His country hasn't been around as long as most of the rest of the world. His country is young and lives in a bubble. Find peace within.
@@breakfastplan4518 He's living in the status of a rather bitter victimhood...or, rather was. He sounds more like his identity is based in the modern version of victimhood. I don't see how he can blame every single white face that he ever saw. Where did the white faces that started this country come from ? Great Brittan, France, and Spain...rather large patches of Europe. Who 'tamed' the druids that were running around that continent worshiping trees ? THE ROMANS. If you're going to blame all Whites, you'd have to start at that island to the west of Portugal known as the Azores and work your way over to what we call Russia.
He reminded me of one of my cousins. We grew up together and we were very close. He was like my big brother. My cousin grew up to become a successful attorney. He grew disillusioned with practicing law and became a successful freelance legal analyst and journalist. He also started to teach law at several colleges. Like Baldwin, he struggled with sexual ambivalence. Although he was very private about his sexual ambivalence, he his feelings confided in me. My cousin was very critical of the Black church for the same reasons Mr. Baldwin was critical of it. When I listen to Mr. Baldwin, I think about my cousin, as he was thin just like Mr. Baldwin. He chainsmoked and even had the same mannerisms as well. My cousin was very tall and light-skinned though. Both Mr. Baldwin and my cousin were intelligent men. My cousin died of lymphoma right after he got his big break as a professional analyst. He would have been 45 this year. All the good ones go too soon. Anyway, thanks for this video. Seeing it is like seeing my cousin all over again. Both RIP…
Thank you for posting this. As I mature I find myself more and more in awe of James Baldwin's work. His work is so completely relevant. Its nice to see his family.
This man is literally wayyy ahead of his time! The knowledge and wisdom that he is speaking is so desperately needed right now in today's world!!! THIS is what we should be having our kids listen to!
Lawd man.... Black folks pain is heartbreaking. Yet and still all we can beef about is MONEY, BONNETS, and SKIN TONES. If the rest can respect their ancestors struggles and keep certain movements alive WHY can't we?
The pain causes bigger egos, trying to be strong not realizing that strength is vulnerability. Just try to do your part for a better world even if it’s something as simple as just smiling and saying hi to another person. We are who we are as adults, to improve the condition we have to teach the children better. Love conquers all, it is the most powerful. What we love will determine our condition. If we don’t love and guide the children righteously, they will become broken adults fighting over money, bonnets, and skin tones.
All facts! We care about the dumbest sh&t and tell each other “this is why white ppl won’t accept/respect us and can’t get ahead” All laughs! It’s bigger than that always has been.
Mental Bondage and the idolatry of green paper we are sick as a community and sista all u kan do is GET WELL and be an example of a higher frequency than weaves wigs and wardrobe while I reach higher than money hoes and klothes SALUTE🤞🏾❤🖤💚
This is one of the most impactful 10-minute interview segments ever put together. Though buried by ABC afterward, I have to applaud the original producers and interviewer of this segment for producing and providing us with this wonderful document of Baldwin's thoughts and feelings at that time. It's as biting and relevant now as it was then. James Baldwin and Sylvia Chase (writer, interviewer, narrator) both seem so present, thoughtful, and modern- as if this conversation happened just now.
Yet in four years we've reverted to a Jim crow attitude being accepted in Republican politics. This is 2021. I thought the fact that racism is BAD was settled long ago. Obviously I was naive. Isnt it about time to face it ? All men includes All men! And so many who spout the hateful rhetoric do so in the name of their religion. That's another thing that we need to face too. 2021. A new millennium. Shameful.
@@ss67camaronut Seems to me that the left is the real practitioner of racism, and it is more obvious now than ever. Democrats are like plantation/slave owners, and we are the slaves. They have a very long history of racism. I have more trust for someone who admits to me that they aren't going to do anything to treat me special than I do for someone who *pretends* that they are going to do that just so they can get my vote to attain power so they can fulfill *their own* Marxist agenda.
I love the brain, the boldness, the articulation, the expressiveness, and the intellectual prowess of this man. I also acknowledge and celebrate the fact that, while exceptional, he is not the exception.
Amen. The best kept secret are there are many like that we sat around the dinner table and on the couches of our homes listening to. We called it " Kicking the Knowledge ."
@Григорий Фэша Yes all races have been slaves, and the black market on slavery even now is an unseen scourge of humanity. But the people of Africa (and their descendents) have been enslaved in the last 500 years far more than any other. And legally, too.
@@rickblackburn6168 I hope you've never gotten a haircut, or worn clothing made from animals! Because then you'd be condemned to hell (where you judgmental folk truly belong)
@@rickblackburn6168 Does that give you a supercilious sense of moral superiority? It almost seems that you gleaned a kind sexual gratification by articulating your comment. 😈 The subtext of your reply is quite telling.
@@Zim24Diva actually there are people "unhoused " that I know who are happier than those tied to a mortgage or apartment and a job they hate. Quality of life is definitely worse though, if time is money many of them have more time than those working full time
america is so oppressive that people are dying just to get into the country. like 10 unarmed black people get killed by police each year (probably same amount as white) but yous always act so extra like all whites are just killing every black person. tighten up man, shits embarrassing
Well if you would have grew up when I did , you would see that things have changed. You can’t make people change what’s in the heart via laws or legislation. People have to want to change and grow.. hatred is everywhere,. Black people think that we are such victims. That continues the spread of hatred… hatred on both sides. Baldwin experienced blatant hatred and ignorance but most of not all of you TH-camRS haven’t experienced what this man has. Hatred instead of racism is what’s dividing and killing and it’s on both sides.race is an excuse to justify hate injustices and whatever else people can use it to do..
A giant of American literature and a wellspring of wisdom and reflection. We need and should heed his perspective now more than ever. I have so much respect for the man.
"I have nothing against you. I don't know you personally. But I know you historically...the American sense of reality is dictated by what Americans are trying to avoid." Thank you, Mr. Baldwin.
@@SickrealmTierra You've just proven Mr. Baldwin's statement, "I don't know you personally but I know you historically". And, now you know (if you chose not to know) "crime" is not tantamount to being black.
Amazing! Next time I hear someone say America isn't racist I'm gonna channel my inner Baldwin and ask them "Would you want to be black or brown here?" I have a feeling it will make anyone asked that stutter.
As a white who was born in the early 60s, I have to say, this man was correct. Very early on, I was taught to fear black people, yet no one could ever say why. By my late teens, I decided on my own there was absolutely nothing to fear. Us whites are just like blacks. We are human beings, just different colors. I don't understand the complete ignorance that whites pass down to their children. But it's up to us to break the stupid cycle. I am 59 years old now. My best friend is black. And she is the BEST. I find it interesting that whites fear blacks, because they think they're all drug users/dealers, etc. Yet there's actually just as many whites who ARE LIKE THAT. Racism simply HAS TO STOP. IT needs to be made ILLEGAL. It breeds ignorance, unfounded fear and hate, and so much hurt. It MUST STOP or our United States will never be what we want it to be for ALL OF OUR CHILDREN.
Someday, teaching your kids to hate might be a prosecutable offense. People - don't teach your kids to hate. If you want to hate, well, that's tragic, but don't expose your kids.
@@donnavorce8856 The State growing power over parental rights is a slippery slope. What about protecting our culture from other cultures? Is that racist? I don't think my race is superior to others...I like my culture better.
It's one thing to think good ideas. It's harder still to express them convincingly. Literally, convincing: changing minds with rhetoric. That's powerful.
Stop voting Democrat, they want blacks poor and dependent. President Lyndon B. Johnson federalizing his proposals on black poverty, cemented black allegiance to the Democratic Party for years to come. He said his plan was; _". . . to have them nword(s) voting Democratic for the next 200 years."_ And btw; suicide, rage, anger, cultural norms and traditions can't be ascribed to skin color. It would appear Martin Luther King Jr. understood that better than James Baldwin.
@@lbcn04sloc28 ask the white men and women too. Actually don’t ask the women. Across all races they only make up 1/4 of the deaths. Yes per capita black men are killed slightly more than other races. But not by much. And the chances for any race are insurmountable anyways so it doesn’t really matter. Furthermore, if you account for interactions with police, a white man is slightly more likely. Again, not by much, though. Plus, a cop is 18 times more likely than a citizen to be killed in a traffic stop. But absolutely nothing of what I just said can be attributed to racism. Sure there are plenty of outright racist cops like chauvin and I’ll admit that there are more cops like him than there are racist black cops out for white people. But again there have been like 4 in the past 10 years and probably only a few more left on the force at this moment. And by the way, chauvin already had multiple complaints against him for lesser violations but the department was already so underfunded and understaffed that they couldn’t afford to fire him. Which is one reason that the defund the police bs can’t work.
Wow. Say that to the millions of black people in America that are very successful and to the millions of black people trying to immigrate here to do the same thing. If you believe that nothing has changed you are hanging out with the wrong crowd. You’ll always be unhappy and insecure. America is the land of opportunity recognized by people worldwide who will do anything to get here. Too bad too many pampered Americans can’t see that.
I’m glad he is still able to influence from beyond. This was my first exposure to this great man and I’m sure won’t be the last. Thank you for this educational video from many years ago.
I’m sure the interviewer was a bit uncomfortable at the point he was being blunt. The ditching of the interview is a perfect microcosm of how white people want to deal with race. They would like to remain comfortably numb. Happy Juneteenth!!!
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@@fubokuen lol that's laughable. Thomas Sowell went on and on about how the left is unwilling to debate their ideas and that they don't use empirical evidence: look at Steven Crowder screeching like a banshee before tucking tail and running before Sam Seder not once but several times... Not to mention the right's inability to accept basic scientific fact like vaccines help to reduce the spread of disease or human driven climate change exists.. Look at Noam Chomsky vs William Buckley (contemporaries of Thomas Sowell), tell me who refused to address empirical facts and who refused to actually discuss concepts (Hint: It wasn't Chomsky)
We did read a James Baldwin book in school here on the East Coast, United States when I was in grade school, but even though I assume that's more exposure to his work than kids get in most parts of the country, it was pitifully insufficient when you consider the magnitude of his wisdom and all of the sophisticated, evolved commentary he had to offer this world and young people, in particular. To learn to think the way Baldwin did at a young age would be an incredible gift to anyone. When he speaks, you cannot avoid listening, and having listened makes you better somehow. His exceptional intellect expands your own, just by exposure. I think kids should see things like this interview as part of a school curriculum instead of just reading Go Tell it on the Mountain without any visual or conversational insights into the cultural atmosphere in which he lived or getting to witness his incredible eloquence.
He was an amazing man! He just wanted to live his life in peace. I can't imagine having to live your entire life pretending to be something you're not. And I'm so very glad he didn't. He was genuine and authentic.
I found myself tearing up listening to James Baldwin here. He spoke the truth and he wrote the truth. That nothing has changed right up to today, even though he was on the scene the way he was says more about this country than anything. Thank you for putting this out there.
James Baldwin will always be a national treasure! He is one of the most exquisite writers to have ever walked the planet! He is an inspiration to all of humanity!
You are just as powerful. Never doubt that. Don't let anyone drag you down. Don't waste your life looking at the way things are. Spend your life looking forward to the world we can have if you learn to love each other. Only love works. Nothing else can.
Non-compromising to the end, despite very very difficult and dangerous times. Thanks James Baldwin for ensuring that this part of our history doesn't disappear.
“ I knew he had to write “ ooh and how he wrote and spoke. He was brilliant and brave. He’s who I look to ,for the truth of society and how to move forward, not those who selfishly stood in the way. It is still the way forward.
James Baldwin was an amazing man! “The Fire Next Time” is one of my favourite books. ❤ He used his anger to inspire and educate. He’s one of my heroes.
My high school English class taught "The Fire Next Time" twenty years ago, and I believe my niece will get to read it (at the same school) this year. I was telling her just a couple weeks ago what an amazing book it is.
There is no one else like him. He is open minded yet rooted in his principles to see his people excel in all things. Curse on blacks, no America is cursed.
Depends on an Afro-American/Latino/Caribbean etc persons point of reference...if you believe as I do that we are diaspora of Israel then yes we were cursed for 400yrs and those that carried us away were blessed & cursed. Rejoice for the curses of the people are over! The veil is being lifted around the world, the masses are awakening.. Bless King
@@Leo_Pard_A4 I am obviously replying to the commenter that made the initial comment we are replying to. The initial comment was in regards to not knowing you (white people), personally, but knowing you historically. That comment alone seemed to trigger a lot of the white 😡 rage on the threads on this page. Surely, my initial reply should not have been too overly complex for you not to know to whom I was replying to. Surely.
Wake the Children Sleeping….so refreshing to see such honesty and power in words and how he loved his life. Truly a human inspiration. Thank you James Baldwin for reaffirming my belief in humanity.
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” REST IN POWER MR BALDWIN
Great quote
Hi! You're the second person/entity I've seen use the phrase "rest in power" recently, after a series of posters in my city. Is it a new coinage?
funny we are different colors , but I feel the exact same
Sienna those feelings of inadequacy burden ALL people. To a greater degree than some but most can relate to that sentiment.
it took years for me to know that we are just people. since 8 years old as an american who's only friends were black americans, I knew almost certainly that people who are vunerable are going to be targeted by the masses even thier own, and will be loked down upon.
people even still think I cannot compete with a real white man at the job, or are astonished at my english and ability to blend in, but not black people. even though the whole hood knows this albanian who grew up in foster care here since eight.
i sat at the back of the classroom with the blacks and puerto ricans through school elementry through middle school, and then went to the most ghetto as said high school.
still, I am no different as a person who is myself as I am then if my country did not exile and murder us.
you are not a failure. only your actions can fail. you are a child to God no matter your religion or race or tribe. I am a christian because of all those good people who were looked at by whites as less of a person because of the love they have for people in general. One thing I know is humans in struggle and desperation will stick together to survive. humans are just humans and no one has a better soul than you. you are complete. money and property cant go with you to the next life and your words of love and respect to others will feed the youth.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"
- James Baldwin
That's, an AWESOME statement, there. FACTS!!💯
The ELOQUENCE of This Man , Never Fails To BLOW MY MIND !!!......
here is the truth... Individuals can act racist but politically the only tolerated systemic racism is by the Democratic party.... A) against asians and whites as 1) quotas 2) affirmative action and 3) identity politics and B) against blacks and hispanics as 1) welfare dependency, 2) limited public school choices (vouchers, charter schools and school choice) and improper public school management by teacher unions, 3) Democrat party founded police unions deals with their Democrat mayors and Democrat city officials to cover up or under and overcharge officers (murder 1 charge instead of manslaughter to get officers off) by the Democrat district attorney to avoid their convictions, 4) selectively targeting minorities for abortions and 5) controlling the system to fostering single mother child rearing.... all with the narrative that the Democratic party cares about people of color, children and women.
You can't make change without any cents:)
@@dennispearson9287 Yes I love to hear him talk. So eloquent and philosophical.
I love his mother’s statement of “I didn’t know [he would be so successful], but I knew he had to write”. If all parents could be this supportive of their kids growing up we would probably see a lot less strife on this planet.
Most successful people do have parents like that.. some are a little more enthusiastic, like Joe Jackson.. but what you can't say is that he failed in creating extremely talented musicians
Comment of the century.
I'd like to believe that most parents do think this way. They want their children to seek out something they are passionate about and if it can't pay their bills they find a side hustle that helps to do that while pursuing that passion. It's what I've encouraged my kids to do.
Exactly.
How to be successful as a human being, that doesn't involve paper and things you rarely hear
Baldwin is someone who should be taught in schools. Such an unwavering voice in the face of all those that wanted to silence him. Probably one of the most inspirational writers to ever walk the earth.
Tell DeSantis that. .Florida seems to think that talking about slavery will make white children ashamed. Instead of using men like Baldwin to explain how this experience effects is, they would rather ignore that it ever happened. The whole world sees how we treat black folks, and we will never be the super power we claim until we address it.
Let’s see if De Santis makes him required reading in Florida. More likely he doesn’t even know who Baldwin is. If he found out, De Santis would ban Baldwin’s books from every school and library in the state.
You better hurry up
@@johntechwriterFACTz!!
I’m in a school district in CALIFORNIA and we cannot teach Baldwin or any other Harlem Renaissance author if any of the works contain the “n” work - and as most of their works do - because it’s in their personal experience to have experienced racism, and therefore their works are banned.
"If you trying to avoid reality how can you face it". Timeless words that still ring true today.
real talk 💯
And that's why they fight the truth. In hopes there will never be accountability.
Yes brother. Life immediately improved as soon as I shook myself from my fog and denial and simply accepted the reality of the situation.
Don't wanna say this but the pink people are in big big trouble in future. God will judge rightly and the pink people will realize that God is not like them lmaoooo
What’s Reality?
"I don't know you personally, but I know you historically", let that one marinate.
Then he knows that, historically, her people ended slavery.
@@ronselva9837 did you know that england paid off a loan to end slavery from 1860 something paid of 2014 or something 160 year loan can you believe that
@@ronselva9837 13th amendment says differently
Baldwin makes this broad statement about Whites. Interestingly enough that could be said about blacks in America.
@@giovanniford123 Ehhh.... no. The 13th amendment abolished slavery and was passed by the American people by their democratically elected representatives. How is it that you think the 13th is in conflict with what I said??
The man was charming and sophisticated as hell, but never had a problem articulating his abhorrence for Racism and he was brutally honest to anyone who asked. Nothing but admiration for his contribution to the black diaspora.
Facts! He also knew that was a Blackman first and not on some LGBT he didn’t need to bring that up during a conversation.
Yess.. 👑💯
The back of the plane, the class seating economy section, exists today. Racism is part of classism.
The powers that be are scared of the poor and workung poor,the majority, uniting.
It will be the poor black children and the poor white children and holding hands first, teaching the world how to live the beautiful dream.
Paper pyramids can't purchase the dream. Pyramid pushers loathe the dream.
People putting away their pride and pulling up sleeves to help each other, I'm so proud that this man spoke truly here without hate and venom. God bless him.
The difference today is that people abhor racism by being racist.
@@trulifrea8073 They are still feeding you that nonsense and you are still believing it. It's all bull and also an excuse for why there is no moving forward still stuck in the past.
This man was too powerful for that generation but is needed for this one!❤
“Nobody wants a writer until he’s dead.” James Baldwin was a name I remember hearing in school, but this is the first time I hear him speak. I’m grateful for coming across this video. What a loss it would have been to not have picked up his words.
Do you think so? Go pick up a book of his and see how far you get before you toss it.
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@Zelonia Ford nice kid, a bit misdirected. Somebody forgot to tell him it that the foundation of slavery in the Americas rested on 'black' people capturing and selling other 'black' people into slavery. In addition, he isn't to keen when it comecto geography. The 'black' slaves transported to the Americas were from West Africa. Thousands of miles from Egypt or Israel. A totally different people with a different culture. It's like applying judaism to the Australian Aborigines. It is absurdly out of context.
@@MrBlackbolt1 Calling James Baldwin "kid"... please. He's talking about the climate in this country, who sold the slaves has nothing to do with the lasting racial effects slavery has had within the country.
@Zach Martell 'Black' people are the crux and foundation of the SELLING of slaves into SLAVERY in the Americas. There are no slaves or slavery in the Americas without that. WE, if 'we' are to keep referring to 'blacks' as a collective, DID IT. Now, YOU and all of you collective 'blacks' want to run away from that hideousness ugly and place all the blame on white people. There was slavery in Africa centuries before slavery in the Americas. Thats why the Europeans went to Africa to get slaves. Guess what... there is still slavery in Africa today. Black Muslim tribes still invade, enslave other blacks today. Remember Boko Haram. You've been tricked into becoming a racist. Hating based upon race when NO 'race' is clean.
I’m a straight white man from rural America, and James Baldwin is one of my absolute favorite American authors. As pertinent as ever.
Racist and sexist
Maybe you should use your voice.
It's a crime that this man isn't taught in schools. I discovered James by the time I was 30. An absolute crime.
The opening monologue in The Fire Next Time, made me tear in a way I've never teared before.
Same... I was 33 when I heard of THIS James Baldwin. Went to school with a brotha named James Baldwin Jr. Dad was Sr. I was shocked hearing and not knowing about this historical legend.
Me too! I felt so cheated. Strangely enough I found him just before the pandemic started and immediately emerged myself in his writings...then George Floyd was murdered. I was fortunately prepared to beginning to understand. I completely agree with you in which I felt so cheated that I didn't learn about him long ago. I'm constantly amazed at the relevance of his thoughts still to this day. America has such a long way to go.😔
No it’s not.
@@200x-v4k Ok. Ty for sharing. Your opinion on the subject is obviously unshared in this particular comment thread. Omg..I just hate the arrogance social media has given to some people🤦🏾🙄
At one time his books were required reading in NYC when I went to school in the sixties Richard Wrights Native Son and Black Boy were also required reading later on the books of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison became suggested or required black reading
It pains me to see the number of ignorant and racist comments on this thread. Baldwin is undeniably one of the greatest American writers but it seems some folks are too blinded by their hatred and limited by their ignorance to see that. This man deserves our RESPECT.
He will not be forgotten. Impossible!!!
He most definitely will not be forgotten!
Don’t concern yourself with Racist They are as stupid as can be & embrace hate Fuck em
A brilliant, beautiful man. Prophet.
Not only a great writer, speaker, a great thinker.
My favourite part of this was finding out he bought a Manhattan apartment building for his whole family to live in together 👌🏾 I hope they still own it
I to hope so
Yes! And the fact that they supported him when he was on his journey, and he reciprocated.
That's how you do it.
@@JimiBegbaaji Have you read 'Go tell it on the mountain'? I'm not sure we can say he had his Fathers' support. But I do get what you are saying.
I appreciated the fact that, his FAMILY, stuck by him, knowing of his lifestyle. DURING, that time period. THAT, was awesome!!💪🏽❤💯
"If you're avoiding reality how can you face it?" This sentiment right here applies to ALL areas of life, all our outlooks, every topic.
It definitely applies to the critical race theory-denying white right who want American history to be a fairy tale that caters to their racial narcissism.
To all of us across the world
Exactly....And so many people live their e ntire lifetime Not facing reality
Agreed 100%.... A lot of uneducated people in all races faces this issue. Sad really.. Knowledge is everything....
Thats sounds like something yah would say.
"I needed to know where does black end and I begin?" I'm feeling that.
Deep
Doesn't. Part of who we are.
You'll never know who you are as long as white American can keep you hyphenated American, the first BLACK Edison, the first BLACK Chopin, the first BLACK Einstein, the first BLACK WOMAN to head the world's largest corporation, when she is the first WOMAN.
@Exceptional life before you go too far in the wrong direction, remember, it was Adam who said, "I was naked." Genesis 3:10. God would not call you naked. Let alone a color. So it's on me to figure that out.
Me too!
I learned about James Baldwin in high school in New Jersey when I did a book report on his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain for my sophmore year English class. It was one of the books that a great influence in my life. My English teacher was both surprised and impressed at my book selection. An old man now, I live in Florida and I'm filled with sadness that there are high school kids that probably wont get to read this mans work.
I had a copy of "the Anen Corner"
Especially in Florida, my brother. Whew!
I read 'If Beale Street Could Talk'.
Florida's High School children will NEVER read James Baldwin now.
@@lordsxman What was banned in Florida besides sexual books for elementary kids?
James Baldwin said f, "America". He went to Paris, Nina Simone followed him. He was Maya Angelou's best friend. They lived in Ghana at one time. Lift the Ancestors up!🙏🙏
Paris is so racist. The Netherlands is fantastic- racist I'm certain but my experience there was life changing. In think of going back, for good.
Germany is a hole.
@Dr Beyonder naw africans Americans built America white ppl just pointed at places and started moving in😂😂😂
Factz i read about it in her autobiography
@Dr Beyonder but we built something we can't even and/or haven't ever been able to live in peace inside of...
@@KingofgraceSARA I’ve lived in the Netherlands since I was a little child. I’m curious to know why you find the Netherlands fantastic? Is it better than the US or do you feel more safe? Celebrated? My experiences as a black woman is quite different here, the racism has started from a young age and till today I’ve had to experience it. I was born on a island (just for reference).
Growing up, my father gave me a required reading list every summer. Baldwin was one of the people on the list.
Solid
Based dad!
You had a great father.
Your father was clearly a very wise, intelligent man who created his remarkable legacy through you.
God bless your pops and peace from Ireland!
Nobody wants a writer until their Dead. wow that is a quote
Same thing is said especially about artist.
Nobody wants pure genuine honest to God in your face truth from a true artist or writer who is extremely stong fierce and Brown. Not to mention oppressed- big elephant in the room that grows on and on to the point chaotic explosion ( the whole community).
A writer or the truth.
@@ramonpooser2434 A writer was meant to write the truth but many writers get corrupted or corrupt themselves with things of this world
Agreed
Mr. Baldwins eyes are so expressive and filled with sorrow. I've come to realize some people on this planet are so intelligent and altruistic that it exudes from every pore! And I'm not speaking of book knowledge either. Their thinking transcends their real time, place and environment they currently live in. You cannot hold them back or down. They hold you spellbound when they speak. They will be known throughout history. Mr. Baldwin is one of those people!
He will never be duplicated. So special.
Well said. My thoughts, exactly.
"I dont know you personally but I know you historically....You can't swear to the freedoms of mankind and at the same time put us in chains" Well said Mr Baldwin
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Arabs enslaved Africans thousands of years before whites, no one cares bout that though.......lmao
@@jaredoldhouser3301 prove it
@@jaredoldhouser3301 deflection
@@jaredoldhouser3301 A false equivalence. So are you saying that what white america has done and is doing is for some reason morally justified? This, your comment, is exactly his point of not facing the issue.
The intelligence and wisdom and bluntness of this man will always live on!
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Facts
One of my favorite Elder scholar, writer & activist.
Always!!!💥💥💥
And some people don't want to hear his words.
Anytime I read Baldwin or hear him talk I’m left speechless. Hes absolutely brilliant.
@Jo Ol All 300 MILLION INDIANS will RETURN from AFRICA and SOUTH America.
@@satanlucifer1644
what?
@@messianic_scam 300 MILLION
@@messianic_scam That are in the Amazon.
LUCIFER walks
@@satanlucifer1644
300 millions of what?
I love the works of James Baldwin. My brother lives in Florida and when he went to work on an assignment setting up an internet network for a school about last year he parked by the service entrance of a school. On the side of the school lot were some large totes filled with books. My brother curious looked in one of the totes and realized these books were books taken out of the school library. A few books were by James Baldwin. It occurred to him that these books were being banned. My brother grabbed as many books as he could mostly by James Baldwin and other authors of note and took them home where he proudly displays them and how he is grateful his kids have grown up and didn't have to witness the disgusting turn of events that have befallen Florida due to their idiotic politics.
Was it because the books have the "n" word in them? If so, I would think it would be the blue states taking them out of the curriculum?
Thank ur brother from me, I love his books, mind, personality & he knows/loves his people, very timely comment as this is National Banned Book Week, his mom reminds me of Mrs. Shirley Chisholm! 😇☮💜📚
I was in a bookstore here in the SW, and recently saw on the shelf, that a Maya Angelou book had been ban as well. Then the next DaY, while in the library, I overheard a whyte lady ask for it, and they said they didn’t have it. Just perhaps, she wanted to read it and see why it was banned…
“I Don’t Know Why The Cage Birds Sing.”
These controlling Yurugu’s! 👿👿👿 The jig is up!!! The LIGHT is now revealing all the darken spaces & places.
We had an excellent African-American literature studies at State University in Georgia and of course I feel enriched by the studies and now many years later I still long for my college textbook for that class taught by Professor Cyrus ,PhD (R.I.P.).
You mean they removed from school library books that advocate homosexuality? The world must be ending! Poor kids do t know how to get a card in public library!
He pretty much told them what they did, been doing and will continue to do and they still went ahead to do it by locking the interview in a vault
@Mee Acownt, EXACTLY!
🤔just b/c title says locked away & we hadnt seen it doesnt mean it was rlly locked away. ijs
is that why I've seen this year's ago?
@@lukasm8990 from ABC?
@@nwananka No it was online somewhere
"I have nothing against you, I don't even know you personally.....BUT I know YOU Historically...!"
TRUTH.
@@derek5499 no
@@derek5499
You should change your last name to Chauvin it fits like a Glove.
@@ifeomao5453 yes
@@Moorsho good one. Damn you're funny
That doesn't even make sense, most white people aren't even descendant of colonizers. It's pseudo intellectualism
One of the greatest intellectuals in history. It's a disservice to humanity that most people don't know about him and his work
A pederast who spouts nonsensical cliches of resentment is hardly an intellectual. If you think he is you are severly stunted in intellect
Blessed with intelligence & political insight. James was decades ahead of the times.
Tom Sowell , tells more truth than this Racist ever did !!!
He was a self-absorbed regressive that never got over himself.
@@imperialstrategies6065 Calm down and regroup buddy, youre headed for a cliff lol. Families in America are dead and don't support their kids while they get themselves established? Ever heard of college? That's one of the most basic common things families do, were you trying to be funny or make some other point that i missed?
Wow, how incredibly eloquent and humble. I could listen to this man for hours. You can look into this mans eyes and know he's not lying about his experience, expressive, painful, and sad. This type of man is what a leader looks like, something I have yet to see in my generation.
Be that leader
😔Sad But True😔This Generation Is Asleep Dreaming Of Material Things Biggest Bling😑I Miss Awake People✨🙏🏾✨💖🧚🏾✨💫
"America's sense of reality is dictated by what is it trying to avoid..." That is the definition of psychosis
Psychiatrist, Dr. Aruna Khilanani, delivered a talk titled Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind at Yale School of Medicine. Check it out!
Yet they'll "gatekeep" and/or "gaslight", by saying WE are in "psychosis".
Americans are psychotic ? What kind of traitor are you ?
@@sherrilove5822
The hide is the invasion disguised as $/#¥€$.
@@TheSapphireLeo
All that you see happening now, has been the ultimate voodoic spiritual mission from 400 years ago
James Baldwin was a brilliant man! I wish more people would have listened to him.
Agreed!!
How when he was being censored by mainstream media? Forty years later most of us are just learning about him.
INDEED 👀
It's still not too late!
@@sidneyrobinson2362 True!
"If you're trying to AVOID reality, how can you face it"
"YOU CAN'T have it both ways: can't swear to freedoms for all man kind, and keep me in chains" "🎯🎯🎯
Say AMEN somebody!!
@@phyllisfoster6589 AMEN!!!!
@@phyllisfoster6589 Amen 🙏 🙌 ❤
@@arthurmorales6359 Thank you brother!
Amen
The way his family looks at him when he speaks they know it's words of wisdom
Well they know he's being genuine.
While he's speaking, his eyes seem to be instantly processing everything around him. It's as if he's seeing and understanding much more than he could ever talk about at that moment. When his mother said she knew he had to write, it's like she was talking about the inevitability that his reality had to be expressed. His energy was almost an irresistible force that couldn't possibly be contained.
He is DRUNK and searching to segue his victimology bs for fools like you
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
This is an astute observation. I’ve noticed this and never had a way to put it into words. Thank you.
I love this comment. You capture it so beautifully.
I almost see the eye movement as more a scanning of his own mental map, trying to find the correct articulation to at once perfectly eloquent his thoughts, and keep up with them.
Or he was high.
"You begin to hate everybody, which means you hate yourself. And when that happens it's over for you."
Deep.
Yeah, this statement I need to hang on the wall or the fridge but I Need to see it regularly. Sure glad I watched this. Especially as an adult. Back then and as a teen Baldwin and frankly a lot of people were considered a bit radical just for being REAL. It might have caused a peculiar type of looking within but if one had that courage..a lot of eye opening for a caucasian teen.
Every statement he made is quotable and should always be remembered, even as a post-it note you stick to a refrigerator or just write in big letters on paper you tape to a bedroom mirror or make it on a t- shirt. Powerful.
@@DavidSmith-xs3or He was very prolific with his words and thoughts
This mos def applies to life in 2021. A very wise observation. Problem is most of the people currently doing the hate, seem to think it is righteous hate, and justified, hate is encouraged as woke.
So happy to see that he didn’t forget his family and their love, and returned that support when he gained success.
RESPECT ♥️
No loyalty nowadays
"Giovanni's Room" had a HUGE impact on me, when I read it as a very young man, almost half a century ago.! It's how I was introduced to Baldwin's work.
"Somethings happened to me because I was human, and somethings happened because I was black". This hit different hearing it here, I think most people especially in today's era miss this part of things, being able to take a moment and reflect is important not just to be sure but to hold oneself to account and be responsible.
It’s been said that wisdom is the result of experience and reflection.
You've misheard and misquoted him. He said "some things had happened to me because I was Jimmy.." not human.
I think you are misinterpreting what he was trying to say. He was commenting on the idea that after living in a country where blackness is a burden that is stigmatized and oppressed it was challenging to be able to see himself accurately as just Jimmy without the shame and self hatred he had been taught by american culture.
He needed his experience in Paris, to better understand himself as a human being, and not as a “Black man”
@@donaldbiden1920hit the nail right on the head. The do the same with MLK as well it's very weird
"If you are trying to avoid reality, how can you face it?" BRILLIANT!
Stupid and obvious statement. And not even relevant. We have confronted it and relegated it to the reash heap of history where it belongs. Stop whining about slavery and oppression. Modern day myths used to explain the failure of black America to succeed on any level.
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@@fondrees who is we have confronted these situations. Tell that to the families of young black men gunned down over a minor traffic violation. It's been written that 2/3rd's of heathens and gentiles won't make it into the kingdom for lack of knowledge and belief. Get off your knees, you seem to be in denial.I imagine you could still be invited to the neighborhood BBQ.
@@fondrees your just proving his point, typical TH-cam comment 🤦🏿♀️
He stated that he didn't have much choice. We are all masters of our fate. If we think this is not so, we are victims but have something to gain from it, or think we do.
“Americans sense of reality is dictated by what Americans are seeking to avoid” just as true today as it was then, and always has been.
I don’t believe that @ all. Of all the nations of the world where slavery existed (i.e.: ALL the nations of the world) I can’t think of another that has dealt w/ their past history of slavery more completely than the US of A. Now....whether this was done voluntarily - or, more likely, bc of such strong & Articulate - & BRAVE - men like James Baldwin - who demanded we confront this history - it does not matter. It has been done - & it continues to be confronted. However, their has been a poisonous hypocrisy unleashed in this country that is clinging to a rewritten history and promoting an exaggerated sense of how we see each other today - &, sadly, it’s all perpetrated by the same devils who were originally the sole perpetrators of the original crime. (The Democratic Party - “Wolves in Sheep’s clothing!)
Peace to all....
@@brendanmcgarry7238 What's the rewritten history? I've seen texas rewriting their history text books to hide hard truths for years. Kansas too.
Why do white Americans always try to deflect back to slavery and how everyone had slaves and how Africans sold their own people? What about all the horrendous acts laws and terrorism after slavery the treatment of the freed slaves the deliberate oppression what’s the excuse of the evilness that came after slavery? Were most white people Democrats cuz it seems like racist were the majority, i mean not saying there weren’t white people that didn’t like what was going on but it seems like a majority were cool with it.
@@brajeharris3091 one word: guilt. They killed Malcolm ecause he was preparing to take them before the United Nations and then the world court and prove we weren’t the worlds savior from dictatorships and genocide, but just like everyone else.
@@mikewilcox8197 I’ve been waiting for a person of no color to answer because they seem very passionate about the subject.
James had a tremendous amount of strength and bravery to confront so many of his issues and society’s issues. Also to go through the process of differentiating which issues were his and which ones were societies. Carl Jung said if you don’t acknowledge and confront your shadow, your shadow will manifest itself in you.
Thank you for sharing🙏🏽
He was also pro diddling kids. But hey, he made some run-of-the-mill points about society with a poetic inflection, so I guess he's great.
Don't tell me what A Black Man can/can't do....HE BOUGHT THE BUILDING YALL! 😍😍😍 And put Mama & dem in it!
Nothing but respect
Yeap...Floyd Mayweather owns 7 in Mahattan I believe
@@mr.notajoke1647 Wow!
I hope the family still owns the building.
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THE RELEVANCE OF BALDWINS STATEMENTS ALMOST 5O YEARS AGO IS MIND-BOGGLING !!!!....THEY COULD HAVE DONE THIS INTERVIEW YESTERDAY !!!.....TRUTH IS TRULY TIMELESS !!!....
Exactly
That's the pathetic part it remains the same.
@@lynettebeckles9842 Yeah .
Hear Hear!
Truth HAS to be timeless, as it remains
A black genius. A Fire Next Time should be mandatory reading in high schools.
Yes, mandatory reading
He's a genius. Why put a qualifier on it? That gives some people the chance to consider that a lower status, unfairly.
@@winthorpetrois I'm lost on your comment. What do you mean by a "qualifier?"
@@SKBoard-rj2zm The adjective "black." Some people, consciously racist or not, might take that as, "Yeah, but he's not as much of a genius as white geniuses like Fitzgerald, Dickinson, etc."
@@SKBoard-rj2zm It's like if I say to a woman, "You're a beautiful Asian woman." She might take offense to that: "Why aren't I just a beautiful woman? I'm not as beautiful as black or white women?"
Honestly I think he's our best intellectual. He is our relative, and he said things that needed to be said, and that are vitally true. Also he came to terms with some things I've heard no one else explicitly describe, like the embattled point of view where self-hatred becomes a more likely than not point of view and it is necessary to consciously come up with a way forward or be immersed in that undefined hatred. If you are a religious person his sexuality becomes a thorn in your side. But he is a known quantity, he is not hiding anything. There is a lot of honor in that. Honestly he is a great man.
Try Thomas sowell,now that’s really true educated fella
I completely agree. Baldwin was one of the greatest intellectuals the U.S. has ever produced
@@charliekenwright6324 Thomas Sowell is a hack. He's an economist who feels that anyone should listen to his views on social issues.
lol, no.@@charliekenwright6324
I think if a religious person has a problem with his sexuality they should re-read their book and maybe consider if thats a god worth worshipping
"I had no secrets, now you can't blackmail me! "
Best way to move :)
@@turtleanton6539 The way I put, safer above ground than trying to stay under.
Real
YOU STILL HAVE SECRETS WHEN YOUR USING A LIE TO JUSTIFY YOUR POINTING A FINGER IN JUDGMENT!!!! ONE OF SATAN'S BIGGEST QUALITIES IS "ACCUSING THE BRETHREN NIGHT AND DAY"!!!! YOU ARE NOT BLACK... THAT IS A LIE FROM SATAN!!!! YOU ARE A LIGHT BEING OF ENERGY, MASKED AND HIDING FROM ALMIGHTY GOD!!!!! YOU WANT PEACE... LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND GET RIGHT WITH ALMIGHTY GOD!!!! THEN YOU'LL CLEARLY BE ABLE TO SEE THROUGH THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!! CLEARLY THIS MAN DID NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT, FOR IT IS A SPIRIT OF ALL TRUTH!!!!!
ALL FLESHLY BEASTS MUST CONSUME ENERGY TO SURVIVE... IF YOU ARE CONSUMING ENERGY FROM ANOTHER, THAT IS AN ACT OF MURDER AND WAR AGAINST ALMIGHTY GOD!!!!! THAT IS WHAT MAKES EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD EVER BORN GUILTY AND IN NEED OF SAVING!!!! SAVING FROM YOUR OWN SELF!!!!!
...I need a book on how to tighten a loose nut. Thanks.
I love how when he was at his family’s house in Manhattan they were all quiet and listening NO DISRESPECT or anything, they all looked up to him and respected him and I shall go on a search for all his books. I will find them 🧡✨
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They always act that way when you're the one with the money.
@@tomquinn607 Who's "they?!" Please don't tell me you're some white guy making a generalized comment
@@tomquinn607 - Or, apparently, you act that way around your wealthy family & “friends.” That thought never crossed my mind. My family was not wealthy, & some downright poor. But we loved & respected them nonetheless. Contrary to your avaricious beliefs, many of us do not “love” or “respect” someone for their monetary status & what it may someday possibly bring us.
@@tomquinn607 no they don't. "they" always act that way when "they" are raised to be respectful and have a sense of learning from elders and a sense of self respect
Baldwin remains among the most fierce, unfiltered, truthful writers of American literature. Absolutely amazing artist. "There never was a chance." ....damn. Words can't express the painful wisdom
Why do we have to classify things by race?
@@kyieberry did I stutter? My dude is not among the best black American writers in history, he is among the best, period.
@@ethanfleisher1910 he was while in college I was assigned to read books from his writtings and the college professors where from american literature and English class ...amazing books
@@sheercannon WE are ignorant jerks. "Race" is irrelevant. People need to STOP talking about.
@@SuperGuanine No.
Honestly, this brought tears to my eyes, what a truly beautiful soul he was. May he Rest In Peace. ❤
If you don't deal with reality, how can you face it? That sums up the state of America right now perfectly.
Was introduced to James Baldwin in college English class. Will never forget the line "To seek a minor sun." It was describing a bug seeking warmth under a street light as winter moved in. Brilliant.
Brilliant... really? It's a BUG. They always go toward ANY light
This was a very powerful story. Baldwin, was the truth and he was a truth teller. That's why they didn't want this to be out at that time. Point Blank!!!
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@@dans4270 think for yourself dude
He was on every single major news program and talk show saying the same bullshit 😒 no one oppressed him🤣
It is good to see the love as he speaks with the kids - turning that boy's head toward him as Baldwin addresses him, as though to say "We can't talk unless we see each other." His honesty always hits home, makes each of us hope to be better, and feel the duress of bringing our conflicted nation to its senses.
Baldwin: “I don’t have anything against you because I don’t know you personally but I do know you historically” To the people who say “I nor my family ever owned slaves” or “ I didn’t have anything to do with what happened hundreds of years ago” If you can, think about what J. Baldwin said to his interviewer in the presence of his family. POWERFUL!!!!!!
Please share this on tik tok!
Yes, I agree. The same behavior still exists in 2021 from are politicians, police and regular folks.
There you go
@Osh Kosh talk about it
@Roger Washington your family came over and benefitted from a country that thrived because of slave labor. Obviously their situation here was much better than in Europe or else they would’ve stayed there, so nice try.
Baldwin is the greatest rediscovery in my adult life. He once said “I’m past the crime!”. That’s why he can freely articulate racism without the emotional baggage that seeks to avoid it.
“You didn’t tell me, I told you”
And was never hiding💯
For the trolls. Anything you can’t just come out and say you did or are doing.. you’re hiding. My comment don’t apply to you.
😌 Amen!
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He was so ahead of his time. I commend Mr. Baldwin for his determination. He should be taught about in schools everywhere.❤
I loved that he told the children the truth! It won't be easy but you fight for what you want. Always a powerful message given unfiltered.
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Young Jeffrey wasn't really into it but yeah
he thought the children Critical Race Theory Before Harvard did .. fascinating
@@vintage-red-carpetmasonic-38 can you explain what Marxist mean ?
This was deep, deep, deep. He is so gifted in using his words to communicate truth. He was a master at describing emotions and systems in such a concrete way, it literally lands in your soul, you open your eyes and there it is, immutable truth. On top of it he is so dignified and warm all at once; phenomenal.
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you've expressed this very beautifully.
BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN🥰👏🏿💯
In his youth he was a minister, thus having that ability to both articulate and write brilliantly.
Yes, well spoken by Mr.Baldwin and you.
" I have nothing against you personally. I dont even know you personally..... But I know you, historically.." That hit me like a brick. And in that moment, it became clear to me how easily history dictates perceptions of people and groups.
@@natbrownizzle1387 Hes not Romanian. He is not living in Romania. Hes not talking about Romanian culture. His country hasn't been around as long as most of the rest of the world. His country is young and lives in a bubble. Find peace within.
@@breakfastplan4518 He's living in the status of a rather bitter victimhood...or, rather was. He sounds more like his identity is based in the modern version of victimhood.
I don't see how he can blame every single white face that he ever saw. Where did the white faces that started this country come from ? Great Brittan, France, and Spain...rather large patches of Europe. Who 'tamed' the druids that were running around that continent worshiping trees ? THE ROMANS.
If you're going to blame all Whites, you'd have to start at that island to the west of Portugal known as the Azores and work your way over to what we call Russia.
@@natbrownizzle1387 WOW! Stay in the closet, my friend. Find peace from within.
@Blue Fox when and how did he say that by speaking of Romanian cultural circumstances. HELLO?
@@breakfastplan4518Stay in the closet. Peace within. Lol. More limiting and ooping cliches ala Baldwin. You have ingested and now disseminate idiocy..
I'm convinced they buried him period. I didn't hear about James Baldwin until I was nearly done with my 30's. His words are magical.
He reminded me of one of my cousins. We grew up together and we were very close. He was like my big brother. My cousin grew up to become a successful attorney. He grew disillusioned with practicing law and became a successful freelance legal analyst and journalist. He also started to teach law at several colleges.
Like Baldwin, he struggled with sexual ambivalence. Although he was very private about his sexual ambivalence, he his feelings confided in me. My cousin was very critical of the Black church for the same reasons Mr. Baldwin was critical of it.
When I listen to Mr. Baldwin, I think about my cousin, as he was thin just like Mr. Baldwin. He chainsmoked and even had the same mannerisms as well. My cousin was very tall and light-skinned though.
Both Mr. Baldwin and my cousin were intelligent men. My cousin died of lymphoma right after he got his big break as a professional analyst. He would have been 45 this year. All the good ones go too soon.
Anyway, thanks for this video. Seeing it is like seeing my cousin all over again. Both RIP…
So sorry for the lost of your friend. I hope you have peace knowing he's not fighting in this " Bitter Earth".
RIP Cousin and Mr. Baldwin🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I'm glad to hear you have fond memories of your cousin. RIP to him and Mr. Baldwin!🕊
Sending love to you and your cousin. This was a wonderful comment
Did your cousin have a comparable dental misfortune?
Thank you for posting this. As I mature I find myself more and more in awe of James Baldwin's work. His work is so completely relevant. Its nice to see his family.
This man is literally wayyy ahead of his time! The knowledge and wisdom that he is speaking is so desperately needed right now in today's world!!! THIS is what we should be having our kids listen to!
James Baldwin died many years ago. But he is still relevant today. No one could call him foolish.
I agree 1000%
Angry people are always victims.
He was past present and future, it would seem, until America and the world faces it's demons and exorcise them.
@@robertdouglas8895 "black people are always victims"....is what u meant say less..
Eloquent and insightful man. RIP.
I absolutely adore that man! I never get tired of hearing him speak our truth…still to this day.
Lawd man.... Black folks pain is heartbreaking. Yet and still all we can beef about is MONEY, BONNETS, and SKIN TONES. If the rest can respect their ancestors struggles and keep certain movements alive WHY can't we?
Speak the truth sister!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The pain causes bigger egos, trying to be strong not realizing that strength is vulnerability. Just try to do your part for a better world even if it’s something as simple as just smiling and saying hi to another person.
We are who we are as adults, to improve the condition we have to teach the children better. Love conquers all, it is the most powerful. What we love will determine our condition. If we don’t love and guide the children righteously, they will become broken adults fighting over money, bonnets, and skin tones.
All facts! We care about the dumbest sh&t and tell each other “this is why white ppl won’t accept/respect us and can’t get ahead” All laughs! It’s bigger than that always has been.
Mental Bondage and the idolatry of green paper we are sick as a community and sista all u kan do is GET WELL and be an example of a higher frequency than weaves wigs and wardrobe while I reach higher than money hoes and klothes SALUTE🤞🏾❤🖤💚
Divided in mindset instead of being collective with purpose.
This is one of the most impactful 10-minute interview segments ever put together. Though buried by ABC afterward, I have to applaud the original producers and interviewer of this segment for producing and providing us with this wonderful document of Baldwin's thoughts and feelings at that time. It's as biting and relevant now as it was then. James Baldwin and Sylvia Chase (writer, interviewer, narrator) both seem so present, thoughtful, and modern- as if this conversation happened just now.
Agreed
Yet in four years we've reverted to a Jim crow attitude being accepted in Republican politics. This is 2021. I thought the fact that racism is BAD was settled long ago. Obviously I was naive. Isnt it about time to face it ? All men includes All men! And so many who spout the hateful rhetoric do so in the name of their religion. That's another thing that we need to face too. 2021. A new millennium. Shameful.
Right. This interview could have happened this year and is so relevant.
@@ss67camaronut Seems to me that the left is the real practitioner of racism, and it is more obvious now than ever. Democrats are like plantation/slave owners, and we are the slaves. They have a very long history of racism. I have more trust for someone who admits to me that they aren't going to do anything to treat me special than I do for someone who *pretends* that they are going to do that just so they can get my vote to attain power so they can fulfill *their own* Marxist agenda.
Deep
First time hearing about this guy. What an amazing person. A real visionary. He really spoke truth to power.
I love the brain, the boldness, the articulation, the expressiveness, and the intellectual prowess of this man. I also acknowledge and celebrate the fact that, while exceptional, he is not the exception.
Amen. The best kept secret are there are many like that we sat around the dinner table and on the couches of our homes listening to. We called it " Kicking the Knowledge ."
@@amb7412 Exactly! Well said.
@@lakep7798 Thank for.
What's so surprising? Are you Caucasus 🤔😳
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"it sounds like you think slavery put a curse on us"
"Slavery IS a curse".
God put that curse on them
@drag0nfly_girl exactly 🙏 he had a knack for putting huge issues so succinctly. Huge admiration for James Baldwin.
@@fuckgoogle3516 What absolute bullshit!!
See Prof. Thomas Sowell on slavery .
@Григорий Фэша Yes all races have been slaves, and the black market on slavery even now is an unseen scourge of humanity. But the people of Africa (and their descendents) have been enslaved in the last 500 years far more than any other. And legally, too.
Best JB quote is, 'I can't believe what you say because I can see what you do', might not be strictly correct but you get me x 🙏
I think this is absolutely correct. If what a person says and what they do are different, believe what they do.
I hadn’t heard of this Baldwin brother before today
Wisdom speaks and carries over many generations…. A legend
That'll preach!
He "left the church" and became a homosexual. That's all you need to know.
@@rickblackburn6168 or is that what you want to know
@@rickblackburn6168 I hope you've never gotten a haircut, or worn clothing made from animals! Because then you'd be condemned to hell (where you judgmental folk truly belong)
@@rickblackburn6168 Does that give you a supercilious sense of moral superiority? It almost seems that you gleaned a kind sexual gratification by articulating your comment. 😈 The subtext of your reply is quite telling.
Reality has not changed when poverty & hunger exist in a country that claims freedoms and riches beyond imagination
Poverty is a state of mind for a nation of consumers
Its supposed to be state of mind 😳 I imagine
@@ivanwolf7658 inflation is not a state of mind and is real.
@@ivanwolf7658 Yeah, I’m sure the unhoused living in tents would agree with you🙄.
@@Zim24Diva actually there are people "unhoused " that I know who are happier than those tied to a mortgage or apartment and a job they hate. Quality of life is definitely worse though, if time is money many of them have more time than those working full time
I'm not sure when people convinced themselves that things had/have changed but all you have to do is open your 👀...
@LA Hopkins
Black people being convinced that things have changed was the direct result of the creation of the Black middle class.
Ain’t sht change bt the year
They haven't They pretend.
america is so oppressive that people are dying just to get into the country. like 10 unarmed black people get killed by police each year (probably same amount as white) but yous always act so extra like all whites are just killing every black person. tighten up man, shits embarrassing
Well if you would have grew up when I did , you would see that things have changed. You can’t make people change what’s in the heart via laws or legislation. People have to want to change and grow.. hatred is everywhere,. Black people think that we are such victims. That continues the spread of hatred… hatred on both sides. Baldwin experienced blatant hatred and ignorance but most of not all of you TH-camRS haven’t experienced what this man has. Hatred instead of racism is what’s dividing and killing and it’s on both sides.race is an excuse to justify hate injustices and whatever else people can use it to do..
A giant of American literature and a wellspring of wisdom and reflection. We need and should heed his perspective now more than ever. I have so much respect for the man.
"I have nothing against you. I don't know you personally. But I know you historically...the American sense of reality is dictated by what Americans are trying to avoid." Thank you, Mr. Baldwin.
I can say the same year yours using crime stats
Such a profound and true statement. What a brilliant man.
Will commit to memory that amazing quote; so applicable to today. :)
Someone, please introduce these words to conservative reactionaries who are against CRT
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You've just proven Mr. Baldwin's statement, "I don't know you personally but I know you historically". And, now you know (if you chose not to know) "crime" is not tantamount to being black.
“You can swear freedom for all mankind but then put me in chains”.
And then freed him from those chains.
@@ronselva9837 A child who refuses to wake up.
@@haimarz9262 How so? Do you have an argument to present? Or just unsupported criticism?
Yeah bro that was strong...
He said "WHEN I HAD LOST ALL HOPE, MY my son just took a my chainsaw
them kids had so much respect & was so attentive to him!
I miss respectful children😕
*attractive to him.
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Amazing! Next time I hear someone say America isn't racist I'm gonna channel my inner Baldwin and ask them "Would you want to be black or brown here?" I have a feeling it will make anyone asked that stutter.
As a white who was born in the early 60s, I have to say, this man was correct. Very early on, I was taught to fear black people, yet no one could ever say why. By my late teens, I decided on my own there was absolutely nothing to fear. Us whites are just like blacks. We are human beings, just different colors. I don't understand the complete ignorance that whites pass down to their children. But it's up to us to break the stupid cycle. I am 59 years old now. My best friend is black. And she is the BEST. I find it interesting that whites fear blacks, because they think they're all drug users/dealers, etc. Yet there's actually just as many whites who ARE LIKE THAT. Racism simply HAS TO STOP. IT needs to be made ILLEGAL. It breeds ignorance, unfounded fear and hate, and so much hurt. It MUST STOP or our United States will never be what we want it to be for ALL OF OUR CHILDREN.
Someday, teaching your kids to hate might be a prosecutable offense.
People - don't teach your kids to hate. If you want to hate, well, that's tragic, but don't expose your kids.
@@donnavorce8856 The State growing power over parental rights is a slippery slope. What about protecting our culture from other cultures? Is that racist?
I don't think my race is superior to others...I like my culture better.
They were rioting in the 60s. I'd say that's sufficient reasoning to watch yourself around them
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Racist whites are literally the least of our problems in this country, and world really.
He was on another level. Great mind, great human being
It's one thing to think good ideas. It's harder still to express them convincingly. Literally, convincing: changing minds with rhetoric. That's powerful.
He was fearless and brilliant
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'I was 7 years old, 47 years ago and nothing has changed since then.' James Baldwin. Still holds true today; how awful!
and how exactly is that still true in modern times?
You and I are the same age and I absolutely concur.
Stop voting Democrat, they want blacks poor and dependent. President Lyndon B. Johnson federalizing his proposals on black poverty, cemented black allegiance to the Democratic Party for years to come. He said his plan was; _". . . to have them nword(s) voting Democratic for the next 200 years."_
And btw; suicide, rage, anger, cultural norms and traditions can't be ascribed to skin color. It would appear Martin Luther King Jr. understood that better than James Baldwin.
@@lbcn04sloc28 ask the white men and women too. Actually don’t ask the women. Across all races they only make up 1/4 of the deaths.
Yes per capita black men are killed slightly more than other races. But not by much. And the chances for any race are insurmountable anyways so it doesn’t really matter.
Furthermore, if you account for interactions with police, a white man is slightly more likely. Again, not by much, though.
Plus, a cop is 18 times more likely than a citizen to be killed in a traffic stop.
But absolutely nothing of what I just said can be attributed to racism. Sure there are plenty of outright racist cops like chauvin and I’ll admit that there are more cops like him than there are racist black cops out for white people. But again there have been like 4 in the past 10 years and probably only a few more left on the force at this moment.
And by the way, chauvin already had multiple complaints against him for lesser violations but the department was already so underfunded and understaffed that they couldn’t afford to fire him. Which is one reason that the defund the police bs can’t work.
Wow. Say that to the millions of black people in America that are very successful and to the millions of black people trying to immigrate here to do the same thing. If you believe that nothing has changed you are hanging out with the wrong crowd. You’ll always be unhappy and insecure. America is the land of opportunity recognized by people worldwide who will do anything to get here. Too bad too many pampered Americans can’t see that.
I’m glad he is still able to influence from beyond. This was my first exposure to this great man and I’m sure won’t be the last. Thank you for this educational video from many years ago.
Wow. Welcome. Do you know Nikki Giovanni?
Listen to his debate with William F Buckley at Yale 1965. He blew Buckley away!
So glad I found this! He’s one of my top three favorite writers. I’m literally about to cry 😭
Profound
I’m sure the interviewer was a bit uncomfortable at the point he was being blunt. The ditching of the interview is a perfect microcosm of how white people want to deal with race. They would like to remain comfortably numb.
Happy Juneteenth!!!
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ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND PROPHETIC MINDS I'VE EVER HEARD SPEAK!!!
No, read/listen to Thomas Sowell.
@@fubokuen lol that's laughable. Thomas Sowell went on and on about how the left is unwilling to debate their ideas and that they don't use empirical evidence: look at Steven Crowder screeching like a banshee before tucking tail and running before Sam Seder not once but several times... Not to mention the right's inability to accept basic scientific fact like vaccines help to reduce the spread of disease or human driven climate change exists.. Look at Noam Chomsky vs William Buckley (contemporaries of Thomas Sowell), tell me who refused to address empirical facts and who refused to actually discuss concepts (Hint: It wasn't Chomsky)
We did read a James Baldwin book in school here on the East Coast, United States when I was in grade school, but even though I assume that's more exposure to his work than kids get in most parts of the country, it was pitifully insufficient when you consider the magnitude of his wisdom and all of the sophisticated, evolved commentary he had to offer this world and young people, in particular. To learn to think the way Baldwin did at a young age would be an incredible gift to anyone. When he speaks, you cannot avoid listening, and having listened makes you better somehow. His exceptional intellect expands your own, just by exposure. I think kids should see things like this interview as part of a school curriculum instead of just reading Go Tell it on the Mountain without any visual or conversational insights into the cultural atmosphere in which he lived or getting to witness his incredible eloquence.
He was an amazing man! He just wanted to live his life in peace. I can't imagine having to live your entire life pretending to be something you're not. And I'm so very glad he didn't. He was genuine and authentic.
I found myself tearing up listening to James Baldwin here. He spoke the truth and he wrote the truth. That nothing has changed right up to today, even though he was on the scene the way he was says more about this country than anything. Thank you for putting this out there.
Nothing has changed, as Mr. Baldwin has spoken.
James Baldwin will always be a national treasure! He is one of the most exquisite writers to have ever walked the planet! He is an inspiration to all of humanity!
He is a true leader and is an example of what we need today. It’s missing. The culture is so destructive, negative and toxic.
#FACTS!!!
Fred Hampton was an effective leader too.
You are just as powerful. Never doubt that. Don't let anyone drag you down. Don't waste your life looking at the way things are. Spend your life looking forward to the world we can have if you learn to love each other. Only love works. Nothing else can.
Agree, it's all encouraged and glamorized (irresponsible sex, gang banging, drugs, and money). Families and staying alive are way underrated.
@@lifebeginswithaseed Ah, but why?
Cui bono?...
Non-compromising to the end, despite very very difficult and dangerous times. Thanks James Baldwin for ensuring that this part of our history doesn't disappear.
“ I knew he had to write “ ooh and how he wrote and spoke. He was brilliant and brave. He’s who I look to ,for the truth of society and how to move forward, not those who selfishly stood in the way. It is still the way forward.
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Brilliant and brave....😂😂😂😂....more like a rich spoiled brat....that preached hate
@@loarnotoole36 I don’t take you as a person trying to move forward. You’re a negative.
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James Baldwin was an amazing man! “The Fire Next Time” is one of my favourite books. ❤ He used his anger to inspire and educate. He’s one of my heroes.
My high school English class taught "The Fire Next Time" twenty years ago, and I believe my niece will get to read it (at the same school) this year. I was telling her just a couple weeks ago what an amazing book it is.
There is no one else like him. He is open minded yet rooted in his principles to see his people excel in all things. Curse on blacks, no America is cursed.
Depends on an Afro-American/Latino/Caribbean etc persons point of reference...if you believe as I do that we are diaspora of Israel then yes we were cursed for 400yrs and those that carried us away were blessed & cursed. Rejoice for the curses of the people are over! The veil is being lifted around the world, the masses are awakening..
Bless King
@@terrencetroy618 I have always been interested in the Israel perspective of our heritage. Why is Israel of all places.
You scared to say gay lol?
"This is not against you personally, I don't know you personally, but I know you historically." Well said.
Right back at you.
Even that comment alone triggered a lot of white folk on this thread to become enraged.
@@leerhode1021 this thread? There are 3 comments here.
@@Leo_Pard_A4 I am obviously replying to the commenter that made the initial comment we are replying to. The initial comment was in regards to not knowing you (white people), personally, but knowing you historically. That comment alone seemed to trigger a lot of the white 😡 rage on the threads on this page. Surely, my initial reply should not have been too overly complex for you not to know to whom I was replying to. Surely.
@@leerhode1021 don't blame me for your incompetence.
I never met this eloquently speaking man, but I love love love and respect him❤🌹❤
Wake the Children Sleeping….so refreshing to see such honesty and power in words and how he loved his life. Truly a human inspiration. Thank you James Baldwin for reaffirming my belief in humanity.