Baldwin Speech: Living and Growing in a White World
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- James Baldwin discusses living and growing in a white world in a talk (and Q&A) to students at a predominantly Black high school in Oakland, California.
From the Pacifica Radio Archives
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RECORDED by KQED at Castlemont High School, Oakland.
BROADCAST: KPFA, 23 June 1963.
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I can see why this man didn't make it into the history books. An intelligent, eloquent, gay, black man. the world couldn't handle it.
DaksBled we don’t use those history books any more in school
But he did inspire and provide an honest outline for generations after him of the sociopaths & evil you deal with every day.
Oh he is in the history books of our people once you realize there are two history books you should be reading 👌🏽
@@kevinreese8224 that’s just sad. One country, two destinies.
He wasn't gay, he was a homosexual.
James Baldwin is in my opinion one of the best minds of the 20th Century.
true - 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Not much, or many, matches his clarity and depth.
I agree 👍🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾
Amen!!
Hands down.
It remains to be seen if I act on it, but with 2 weeks of listening to James Baldwin a few hours each day, I feel change in myself, it's like someone opening up the world and my self with axtin opener and taking a good look. I see a lot of views of these youtubes, it's great to see that.
You can lose your temper for 30 seconds and lose 30 years of your life, so true. Glad I found this, a real gem
Kunfuju..look him up
James Baldwin was brilliant. I could listen to him all day.
Yes so real
I agree. His eloquence holds true for me.
@Mr. Marshall we now have angela davis, cornel west, nikki giovanni, bell hooks etc etc
Yes, I LOVE his voice.
@@Brianbeesandbikes I love his discussion with Nikki Giovanni from back in the day - magic.
"Everything you do and say reveals you" very powerful and profound.
Also, everything you don't do and don't say, reveals you, as well. We're not just action, but inaction.
Silence andoing you!
I think I'm in love. I'm in love with Baldwin's mind.
James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Gil Scott Heron & Dick Gregory. All brilliant minds that I could sit through a lecture from either for hours on end
Add Toni Morrison to that list... and Dave Chappelle.
WEB DeBois, Mr Fredrick Douglas.... Ali...
@@JustnCase Thanks for including intellect Frederick Douglass (Frederick Washington Augustus Bailey) born 2/14/1817 died 2/20/1895
Thomas Sowell, too.
I am constantly blown away by this man.
It is beyond me how he did not win he Nobel Prize for literature. Well, I suppose it is precisely In what he says, they have the power and give themselves everything even though they did not earn nor built anything.
3 strikes: Black, gay, radical
@@Brianbeesandbikes James intelligence rivals academia. Mr. Baldwin was decades ahead.
What is the Nobel Prize by the way? A bunch of predominantly old white males that give themselves the right to determine what is excellent. I salute all the people that have refused to be awarded this prize. It is just a nonsense.
Cause it's given by other people, just as any other prize. It's not something ephemeral and unbiased, quite the opposite.
Who cares about the awards?
I Love listening to the wisdom of James Baldwin 🙋🏾♂️💙🙏🏾
My son took African American History and Culture at Medgar Evers College here in NYC. This course was very important in his education; this course should be required for ALL American HS Students!!!
It should be taught globally period.
This man is so brilliant and well spoken. I am bitter I didn't know about him earlier in my life.
We Africans miss our history people
Katie Cleveland hence his point. They don’t teach us about ourselves 🙂
No need to be bitter. Just rejoice now and forever more. James Baldwin is immortal. His mindstream is still creating.
Same here. Ive been going nonstop JB for a month now. 💓💓💓 him!!
Blame that BS Public School System 😡🤦🏾♀️🙆🏾♀️🤬
I grew up with a much older brother that followed after James Baldwin , my brother was a playwright , director and stage actor. My brother passed in 2001. He would be amazed of this resurgence in Baldwin popularity in this generation. We grew up with Baldwin being on the same level as Miles Davis when it came to black artist and black genius.
James Baldwin was a genius with an amazingly brilliant manner of speaking with clarity and truth about our struggle under white supremacy…. ❤️I loved his intellect…. I was fortunate to meet him. I am 81….
I have so much respect, and, patience, when it comes to listening, assessing, and, reading Mr. James Baldwin. He was more than infamous!!!... a pure soul!!!
Masterful speaker, most regimes and oppressors, can't handle the truth...He was a truth-teller..
This man is so intelligent, ahead of his time for sure
He was also, ahead of humanity.
James Baldwin should be incorporated in to high school curriculum. He is one of the greatest and very relevant today.
He was/is depending on how resegregation is in your state 👌🏽
Thomas Sowell, too.
@@ron88303Tom is a joke.
Legitimately one of the absolute BEST minds to ever exist.
Pure, simple and educative. Baldwin was truly genius in his calling.
I would like to use this incredible speech for a translation project in my high school Japanese classes. What a brutally honest and yet loving way of talking to the youngsters.
What you get here is impressive pedagogical lessons. So enlightening. Baldwin was a true public educator.
Even in death, his speech gives life.
He laughed at me, the thought that artist have to die to be famous! Or that I would see a Barack in my life time. He would be proud of the Obama's
Because he speaks the truth, and the truth is alive unto itself.
Graham Master Flash- A Child is Born with no State of Mind, Blind to the Ways of Mankind.
*Grand
Archie Thomas . Poignant. Profound. Wisdom. Insight
Melle Mel said those lyrics.
James Baldwin had profound insight!
🎉 Rest in peace and birthday wishes to James Baldwin 8 2 This man had a brilliant, platinum mind. We should all take the time to listen to him, it will not be a waste. Rest in Respect
James Baldwin a great man who loved his PEOPLE and REMAINED in the STRUGGLE. I LOVE HIM FOR THAT, SO GLAD YOU WERE ON THIS EARTH AND THANK YOU FOR THE LEGACY THAT YOU LEFT FOR US!
Always remember
God Bless His Soul
the answer to the question of "'who is innocent and who is guilty '' has just blown me away ....whatever these people do, you too are capable.
This speech for high school students is so sincere and thorough. It basically touches everything you need to live positively in this world. 高校生の前で話しているボールドウィンは、限りなく正直で覚悟があって、このほぼ絶望的な世の中でどういう目的を持って生きていったらいいのかを強く教示してくれる。こんな「頼りがいのある」大人を子供たちは探しているんだろうなあ。
さと先生、このスピーチは自分の従業に使えましたか?
The BRILLIANCE of James Baldwin is that he SPEAKS the TRUTH, there is CLARITY of thought that is not clouded by mythical undertainties, but IS WHAT IT IS. He's a great entree to SELF DISCOVERY!! TEACHERS should be TEACHING BALDWIN. Peace. G
Q and A Timestamps
14:51 - Do you think Black people in America should learn African history?
17:10 - What force wins more, Society or Thought?
18:09 - How do you distinguish those that are innocent from the guilty? (Reference to his essay "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew")
20:34 - Please explain your statement that Blacks must learn to accept whites rather than white accepting Black.
24:13 - What is your opinion of Black nationalist movements?
26:50 - What do you think of Martin Luther King's non-violence? (Reminder this is before MLK's assassination)
29:03 - Why isn't Black history taught as part of Western education?
A universal sage in the 20th century all should study him
I have recently fallen so deeply in love with this man. I’m so thankful for these treasures he’s left behind. I know that he’s deceased and that he was gay but that’s of no importance to my heart and mind. R.I.P. my king.
What a wonderful human being he was..
I believe I need to know my history for my self worth and understanding, not to convince anyone else. When we understand SELF, the ignorance doesn't penetrate that sense of SELF.
Once I understood whom I was, I looked at the world differently.
@@bertramdavis7120
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Well said
On the contrary, my friend, ignorance does penetrate us, but we are resistant to its lasting effects 👌🏽
Well said.
I really loved his brother and how he speaks truth to power
He's intelligent and street at the same time.
Baldwin eloquently leads into the QA with a universally applicable and arresting call, to ask the most difficult questions to educators and challenge those in positions of power.
I discovered who this man really was when I was attending college and his writings BLEW my mind how the same issues he had about the black in america is mine theories aswell
Pure GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew the name but at age 56 I have just started to watch TH-cam's. Now I am going to find his books. He is brilliant. But you also have the sense that every single idea is the result of rigorous and painstaking thought.
Omg what have you been doing all this time????
@@werqzeleke2815 try welcome ! Glad you found him! It's a much better way of growing understanding and building a movement.
He should not have been named James...he should have named Genius!
It is hard to imagine, or maybe not in the US in 2023, why the College Board removed this brilliant man from curriculum.
Based on color and brilliance.
An exceptional and wise human.....they are rare..
He tells all but still it is the same what a great man to say the truth he is a great man 👍🏽🇯🇲👍🏽
Here I am in 2020, just now learning about this man. 22:58 is a concept that should be taught to everyone, starting in kindergarten.
one of our most remarkable speaker of truth and dignity with a concrete understanding in spiritual reality, and to teach us to not only be spirited in the society but to be a material force o this earth.
Sir. James Baldwin didn't just tell it on the mountain... He broke it down deeply for us in down in the valley.
Will always 💟 the profoundness
of Brother 👑 James.
~"You're A Man Baby"~
What an amazing person! Growing up in a white world is very difficult for people of coloured. The educational content does not prepare one for the reality of limitations! I as myself didn't realize until I was in my late 20s and early thirties, my skin tone reflected a different road map for me. Being a warrior of principles as we were taught at home, the white world of work viewed me as an arrogant person, which was further from the truth. I was asserting that I was as great as I wanted to become. Education,spiritual respect and principles was my grandmother's rule of law. Once must be educated and let your word be your bond. What a shocked of non reality in the world of politics and ones place ! I thank writers of one as Mr. Baldwin. Iam glad I was taught you are human and can achieve higher thoughts of critical thinking! Myself and my three daughters made it
through the maze of the white mans maze! God bless my people who didnt allow the line of limitations to stop them for their continued success in growing up! What an experience to suddenly discover the fight in the skin tone maze! Glory..Next
Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you
Solid.
Thanks for sharing this.
This brilliant man's
profound legacy is so compelling. I too wish he could have been my teacher. With events now and about I can not listen and not summon tears. Of course they are sad tears , but I also deeply feel they are tears of hope. The communication of hope has this prophet. May we all be inclined to hear. Be the hope you want to have!
-Not so average white guy
From what I consider to be “blindness”, I rose from it after reading the Malcom X’s autobiography and James Baldwins The Fire Next Time… I appreciate this man and his ideas a great deal to a point where I feel my values have changed.. I’m looking to adopt and listen to new ideas rather than valuing the rustle and bustle of everyday life
I wish he were here now. We need his guidance today.
He’s here with us through his words and wisdom that we can always revisit in moments when we feel that humanity is losing its way. Hampshire College in fact has a scholarship named after him. More colleges have to recognize his immense contribution to understanding historical discrimination and ways to dismantle it.
I had a chance to introduce myself to him when he was teaching at Amherst College, but chickened out. Now I understand that I'd already met the most profound Baldwin in his writing and didn't need amplification. It would have been a test of my poise, or an occasion for a later anecdote, nothing about him or my enlightenment.
Powerful Speaker! Love him.
I never knew of Baldwin and im learning now of his speeches.
I LOVE this more every time.
I love all of my people. Yes this strong Black man was gay, but he never allowed white liberals or conservatives to cause him to stray from the liberation of ALL of our people. I hope that our Black LBGTQ sisters and brothers will follow this courageous brother's example. Black peoples fight for human rights is universal and crosses the lines of class, religious faith, educational background, and yes sexual orientation. Black people unite and get free!
I wish he was alive today. what would he think about whats going on now 2019
he would not be surprised
HE PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED SAD TO SAY
He'd still be living in France for that very reason.
what about 2020?
16:05 when the world talks about culture,(...) he’s not talking about culture. He's talking about power. 16:40 but you have not got to prove it to anybody, all you've got to do is know it.
Just wow 👏🏿
A GREAT SOUL THIS MAN HAD IN MY OPINION
That group has inherited narcissistic pillars. When JB uses the word sinister, he is on the money. That being said, we have to know who we are and hold on to our boundaries with dignity, honor and respect of self.
Some exceptional bits of wisdom and perspective:
9:39 There is a reason for everything you do and you must find that reason.
12:31 No matter how I may sound, I am really only mortal - and I love you very much.
15:47 Find out all you can, but don’t find it out with the intention of proving a point.
15:55 There is no reason for you to prove yourself to anybody, except yourself.
19:55 You’ve got nothing to prove and whoever doesn’t know who you are is to be pitied.
23:00 Everything that you will do and say reveals you. What I call you doesn’t say anything about you. But what I call you says everything about me.
26:17 You can lose your temper for a second, and lose 30 years of your life.
28:01 People are not by nature nonviolent.
Yes he puts in words thoughts I've had my whole life
We have to come to a term all people. What they say about black people is really saying about them. That is amazing. So the realization that we all have to do about human history is harder than avenging it.
Class personified.
All do respect to brother Malcolm but Mr Baldwin made a whole lot of sense mannnn !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯👌
@Steelerz Reign Supreme what Eva u say sir 👌...
RESPECT US!!
The only James Baldwin.
Timely! Thank you very much.
THIS MAN WAS BRILLIANT
No words!
How is thought more important if it can't change society? This question is for the room.
That sinister evil within has nothing to do with me; therefore, it is not my place to be a punching bag it a healer of him. I love me enough to have boundaries.
Culture is simply a collection of human expression. It is neither superior nor inferior, for culture exists organically and without conscious effort.
I bet many Americans would forgo Stephen, Alex, William and any other of that branch of te Baldwin family for 1 more Jimmy.
Yes, let's talk like adults
I forgot something. Thank you for posting this video THEPOSTARCHIVE! Hearing this great man talk, will help us tremendously.
One word comes to mind "Beautiful"
A shame he was hidden in his time by the mainstream because he loved men. Any discrimination is unjust and unlawful because all living rights are not the choice of a few and should be defended by the masses 👌🏽
“Father, exists much later”, we are seeing this play out right before our eyes. Black African Americans, confused and lost. Please forgive me if I offend anyone. I am African American, but not blind.
Timeless..RIP. let's try to tell the truth,yes let's try.
intellectually nourishing.
We've been here in America for thousands of years, not 400. The captives from Africa were brought here because the indigenous black people were initially resistant to colonial power. A lot of them were slaughtered, except for the Gullah Geechee tribes, who have been free since 1739, more than one hundred years before the Emancipation Proclamation. They used the land as a defense to fight off the colonial captors. This history isn't taught in the history books, because it's too embarassing to white Europeans.
Truth.
@@davidlarue727 "This fact can being used in bad faith to obfuscate the horror of what the Europeans did. And while it’s important not to ignore the fact that there were Africans trading other Africans into bondage, we should remember that being prisoner of war or a poor member of society traded for goods is not the same thing as being held in intergenerational hereditary chattel slavery that meant your children, and their children, and their children would ALL be born into bondage. THAT is something unique to the experience of slavery in the Americas." - TH-cam - Crash Course, African American History, by Clint Smith.
@@davidlarue727 David the discussion is about slavery in America. Ignorance of historical fact(s) is reality for all humans, without exception. No one, including me, including you, can find exemption from being ignorant of something or another. The past (history), David, is as wide and deep as space-time therefore a singular/linear comprehensive storyline will always be incomplete and inaccurate. And while no one individual has an account of all that has occurred under slavery in all places in-time, on the topic of slavery in the place we know as the Americas there indeed are events that history remembers. Abstract ideas matter none in light of concrete facts. Specific events detail how Europeans succeeded at deliberately and decidedly using tactics of marauding, conquering, colonizing, enslaving, exploiting, oppressing, and maintaining a system of inequality as tools in order to dominate, divide, and destroy captured Africans for generations upon generations. A fact that will remain and cannot be obfucscated no matter what you say.
Thank you Thank you for this!
Our last Poet🕊
It's a shame that we were robbed of our history, I have learned so much between now and my school days, what a disservice, thank you Mr. White man you win again hope you're proud of yourself
12:16 the posture of a true master
Thank you!
Once Black People were stolen from Africa, our African culture was left behind.
Most of the enslaved were not kept together, because they didn't want them to conspire to break away.
So even though 'American' culture was forced on us, we had to create our own Black American culture.
There is hardly anything that Black America 'culture' has in common with African culture.
We had to build ours from scratch.
Because we are the only minority that was forced to
be 'American', we had to leave our African music, religion, clothing, language, diet, sports and all other African cultures behind.
Does anyone know the year of this audio? Thanks
23june1963..in the description box
I was puzzled at his responses to black nationalists groups and his thoughts on the non violent movement by MLK. He was absolutely against black nationalists groups and I believe it's because they were not afraid to employ violence but he wasn't 100% behind the nonviolence movement either. I'm guessing because of the suffering they had to endure. In this lecture he didn't provide an idea or solution that would fall in between the two civil rights movements. I guess there is no in between when it comes to the fight for equality and civil rights. You're either willing to use violence or not. I do enjoy listening to him speak.
He was the scribe and scholar of the era. He traveled with all parts of the movement, neutral but clear-headed. He wrote. He saw both sides. They all traveled internationally.
Just wow!! Put him in our school system
This was a high school commencement?? How did they manage that?? Today's kids would listen for a few minutes, then would suddenly be bored and start checking their phones for messages.
I think they would listen.
He is really good not sure why I didn't hear of him in high school ,guess he wasn't taught much in Caucasian high schools in the 70's black history month was brief with Martin Luther ,Booker T. & a Women called Moses Harriet Tubman that was about it......
He isn't taught much in today's high schools. Didn't you hear the question about black history not being taught in schools? What you were taught is what I was taught in the 90s and is what my daughter is currently being taught, that we were abolitionists (skip the horrors of slavery and go right to abolishing it) and then civil rights activists like MLK, and nothing in between. We had no other identities like inventors, authors, astronauts, inhabitants of ancient civilizations, world leaders. Smh
Keep that question alive, keep asking why....and as you do, you will find answers....Just asking why, gives you the first and most important answer....because....
What do you like James Baldwin or not you have to admit a common-sense approach to anything makes more sense
I believe that if I had had this man as a teacher in high school, and been encouraged to think instead of memorize and regurgitate, it would have changed the trajectory of my life. Thankfully, I discovered his books and learned to think from him anyway. But it was lonely.
did you know that acts of violence over any reason other than self defense are in violation of what are supposed to be unalienable (that means you can’t take them away) rights?
Truth and strength 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
I agreed About the 2nd half of The title but it's Still an equal World but we still has a ways to go in The USA still
Ancestors were primitive and of no cultural consequence in the future. With the select genes they confired on you take on the world as you perceive it.
Thee best advice to give black youth thanks Mr Baldwin now we have to forgive white people as one wise men once said " the best revenge is not to act like your enemy but to learn and to forgive".
The best thing for white people to do is repent. Asking black people to forgive what’s being done to them is like asking an abused wife to forgive her husband and stay in the relationship. Black and whites have to work together but change has to occur in both communities.