James Baldwin was asking us ‘to grow up’, but ‘we’re still adolescent’

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  • @berthabridges3483
    @berthabridges3483 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

    "I don't believe what you say because I see what you do."
    ~ James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, social critic, and activist.

    • @felixmbandandayitabi4536
      @felixmbandandayitabi4536 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Thanks for recalling this powerful aphorism 👍👍👍

    • @candyolson2871
      @candyolson2871 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@felixmbandandayitabi4536 me too!

    • @gabrielmaroto18
      @gabrielmaroto18 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is unlikely that any western people and certainly not the Americans have the moral resources needed to accomplish the deep and mighty transformation which is all that can save them such a transformation involve unimaginable damage to the American ego James Baldwin

    • @kitsmith806
      @kitsmith806 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

    • @janicescott-pair97
      @janicescott-pair97 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly!😊

  • @happynappydrj5238
    @happynappydrj5238 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    Bonjour. I am writing to you from France only due to James Baldwin. I have loved him since I first read his work when I was 14. It was my honor to take his class in college and to write my dissertation about his fiction. It is hard to imagine a world in which everyone does not know the brilliance of James Baldwin. Unfortunately we, as a nation, are still unwilling to pay the price of the ticket. Materialism cannot replace freedom.

    • @candyolson2871
      @candyolson2871 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You typed, "fiction." Why is that?

    • @RJM56
      @RJM56 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@candyolson2871 because as well as writing non-fiction, eg The Fire Next Time, he wrote novels, ie fiction.

    • @LisaFenton-h7f
      @LisaFenton-h7f 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I too discovered James Baldwin at age 15, a white girl in Dallas, TX in 1973. He set the course of my life as an aspring writer and community activist for decades since. I consider him my political and literary father. Contemporary activist could learn SO much from him and his outlook on life.

    • @OthelloBlaq
      @OthelloBlaq 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Materialism cannot replace freedom." Beautiful. 🤌

    • @jeanettesdaughter
      @jeanettesdaughter 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      so beautifully. Said. I started reading him as a teen also and had the honor of meeting him and getting to know his beautiful family. He was a wonderful human being and his works will outlast all of his detractors and critics. His books ought to be required reading in any lieterature course beginning in high school.

  • @erinmac4750
    @erinmac4750 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    This was an excellent segment. James Baldwin is more relevant than ever, and you have Eddie Glaude, jr, giving us the best for this short piece.
    I'm glad MSNBC has kept your show. May you continue to get the recognition you deserve. 💜✊📚

  • @brickcitybrownchick
    @brickcitybrownchick 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I didn't read James Baldwin until I went to graduate school a few years ago: he was brilliant, profound, and thought-provoking. His words are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them. Reading Baldwin in 2024 and seeing how far we, as a country, have NOT come, is deeply disturbing, but absolutely necessary.

  • @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot
    @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I love watching James Baldwins old debates, interviews, and talks. His sit down with Nikki Giovani is awesome

    • @erinmac4750
      @erinmac4750 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the heads up! 📚✊

    • @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere
      @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Intense. Try reading them aloud if you can, these would the perfect material to read aloud, well, this is my relationship with James Baldwin and how I see him.

    • @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot
      @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@MyHalcyonDaysAreHere I'll try that

    • @gabrielmaroto18
      @gabrielmaroto18 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      We need more intellectual like Baldwin you see how they waited till the end of Black History Month and not the beginning that’s deliberate

    • @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot
      @NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@gabrielmaroto18 True... I dont know what happened to all the sit downs black leaders used to have on tv. BET used to have townhalls way back when

  • @dad102
    @dad102 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    Ali and Eddie and James Baldwin.
    You know it's going to be good.

    • @ribbrascal
      @ribbrascal 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol

  • @denillefleming2942
    @denillefleming2942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Velshi you are spectacular! Brilliant conversation!!!

  • @fondawebb4527
    @fondawebb4527 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    So happy to see Eddie Glaude. Thank You Ali Velshi for coming along side of Eddie Glaude in reintroducing James Baldwin to a new generation and those of the old one that wish to be mature and stand up for humanity.

  • @shirleyashanti3031
    @shirleyashanti3031 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Baldwin books are national treasures. Navigating life in the 60s and 70s was held together by his work. Always respected and loved.

  • @MrDXRamirez
    @MrDXRamirez 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    Baldwin is a wonderful author. No better teacher on race and racism in America than he.
    For as long as white America continues to be what Baldwin describes Baldwin will always be quintessential.

    • @erinmac4750
      @erinmac4750 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Truth! 📚✊

    • @ribbrascal
      @ribbrascal 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Keep attacking "white America" and you will continue to awaken us to white Identitarianism.
      /ex-Democrat

    • @thorspinky
      @thorspinky 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah. Long as it’s what he describes in his delusional fantasy. 😂

    • @SE-gs6gd
      @SE-gs6gd 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@thorspinkyyou should watch his lecture at Oxford

    • @nujeru99
      @nujeru99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@thorspinkywhat a pathetic attempt at gaslighting. If you don't have the intelligence to grasp what Baldwin is talking about...you could've just said that 😂

  • @lailamcdaniels7105
    @lailamcdaniels7105 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Thank you for this tribute. I knew with Ali, Eddie and my beloved Baldwin, I would not be disappointed. Thank so much!!

  • @Trund27
    @Trund27 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    One of my very favourite authors and books. A towering giant of philosophical and creative power.

  • @vanessa4u4evr
    @vanessa4u4evr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    So, you know, as a student at Howard University between the years of 1975-1979, Baldwin was just 'that dude'. I read so much of his material that I didn't even realize that I was actually becoming a much more intelligent individual as a result of it. Of course, he wasn't the only 'dude' who was spitting fire back then. There were so many. But I think that I gravitated towards him so much because we both had the mind of an artist. He was writer. I was a student of music. We thought and spoke the same language as black 'creatives' during a time of absolute necessity to break the mental chains and to set our minds free. He was my tutor, my elder, my guide to the future that was awaiting me. I became an intelligent individual as a result of his and many other elder leaders. Brother Baldwin was way ahead of his time. He asked a lot of black people, especially the part of forgiving white people. We're still not quite there. And I don't know if we ever will be. But I do believe that the possibility does lie ahead in the hearts of future generations to come. So rest in Peace Brother Baldwin. We just might get there. ❤

    • @kitsmith806
      @kitsmith806 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      👍🏾🙏🏾❤️

    • @bsomentionsdisses
      @bsomentionsdisses 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Forgiveness for everyone is choosing to open the door towards loving the life you’ve been given. Too often in America black people have been emotionally abused and misused thus clouding up their vision of the gift that has been God given; life ❤

  • @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere
    @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Bravo Ali Velshi, Eddie Glaude, and of James Baldwin. My interest here is somewhat more on the skill of oration, and James Baldwin is simply intense, to reread, even now. I have my sights on Eddie Glaude . . . Thank you..

  • @AveryDWilson
    @AveryDWilson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This brotha always brings pressure!!🔥
    Thank you Eddie Glaude Jr. 🖤

  • @SE-gs6gd
    @SE-gs6gd 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    A remarkable human. Really brilliant. I first read Baldwin in my HS AP English class. Probably those books would be banned in today’s America. What a pity

    • @3243_
      @3243_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately they are being banned in the more right-leaning states.

  • @lisarose5685
    @lisarose5685 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Thank you for this tribute
    So deserved

  • @sjt4225
    @sjt4225 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Great segment, Ali. Keep up the great work.

  • @facilitiesmaintenance
    @facilitiesmaintenance 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    James Baldwin was a visiting professor at UMASS-Amherst in 1983. I took his class.

    • @kimberlyross6688
      @kimberlyross6688 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow! That must have been wonderful!!!!

    • @facilitiesmaintenance
      @facilitiesmaintenance 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @kimberlyross6688 Yes, and what's even better than that is that 50 or so of us students (white and black, reminiscent of the freedom riders) took a bus trip from Massachusetts down to Mississippi to attend a civil rights conference. When we got back, anybody that had gone on the week- long trip was invited to come up to the lectern and say a few words to the class - James Baldwin's class. I took a turn at the podium, and I cracked a few jokes, and I looked over, and I saw that James Baldwin was laughing. I made James Baldwin laugh.

  • @agubata1
    @agubata1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    My first encounter was Another Country. Blew my mind to smithereens and made a lifelong devotee of me. Ravenously, rapaciously, I devoured every single thing he's ever written and spoken, provided they were publicly accessible. What a writer, what a mind, what courage. If Baldwin were white, he'd be revered more than Twain or Melville.

    • @db1958
      @db1958 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Coming from a Literature/Philosophy background myself, I think you hit a very important mark when you wrote "If Baldwin were white, he'd be revered more than Twain or Melville."

  • @emilyfeagin2673
    @emilyfeagin2673 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I need to read “ The Fire Next title “ again
    Thank you sir much, I enjoyed the interview

    • @anonymouslakernerd7214
      @anonymouslakernerd7214 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      After that, try "The Fire Next Time." Also pretty good.

  • @clairewhite9729
    @clairewhite9729 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is such a beloved American public intellectual! Grace and brilliance!

    • @CaptainGoodguySentientAI
      @CaptainGoodguySentientAI 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      …is he?

    • @KikiCNY
      @KikiCNY 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I agree! 🤗

    • @anonymouslakernerd7214
      @anonymouslakernerd7214 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A "beloved" American public intellectual? By whom?

    • @mizz9841
      @mizz9841 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@anonymouslakernerd7214 Anyone with a noble heart and mind for compassion one to another...

    • @JP-hj1il
      @JP-hj1il 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mizz9841references ?

  • @EricJChambers
    @EricJChambers 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great segment. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾”You were expected to make peace with mediocrity.” -James Baldwin to his 15 year old nephew. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @oleander74
    @oleander74 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    This is excellent.

    • @ribbrascal
      @ribbrascal 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's pathetic black victimology.

  • @berthabridges3483
    @berthabridges3483 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
    ~ James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time." (1924-1987), American writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and social critic, activist.

  • @stefonjackson2154
    @stefonjackson2154 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    One of my favorite books from James Baldwin. Read this book in the 1970's and still today a powerful book.

  • @db1958
    @db1958 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is one of the finest conversations I've seen from a news site for way too many years

  • @gerarddelon3844
    @gerarddelon3844 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for this. People need
    to see this.

  • @blackOneTime
    @blackOneTime 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Powerful..., thanks for the limelight

  • @justmyopinion9883
    @justmyopinion9883 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    James Baldwin is one of my favorite authors. All of his writing is still relevant. ❤

  • @brianag9726
    @brianag9726 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    My favorite book of all time. It spoke to me in college in the mid 80’s and I re-read it a couple years ago. Read it!

  • @angel-astanfield7939
    @angel-astanfield7939 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Thank you gentlemen. That was truly amazing and awe inspiring. I’m going to go order a copy of kindle right now. 🙏💕😊🇨🇦

    • @Trund27
      @Trund27 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Highly recommend it! It’s a short book but mighty.

    • @HANNIBAL-z5h
      @HANNIBAL-z5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Trund27a story of a preacher and boys is an old story. Nothing new

  • @ArtistMgmtATL
    @ArtistMgmtATL 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Professor Glaude. This is so on-time. We MUST look in the mirror...that signifies reckoning time w/ the ego (go within). We must be the change we want to see -

  • @ac4498
    @ac4498 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just recently read BEGIN AGAIN. I highly recommend it, as its analysis of Baldwin is fascinating

  • @bo2.4u6
    @bo2.4u6 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Beautiful what a way to end black history month beautiful just beautiful❤

    • @HANNIBAL-z5h
      @HANNIBAL-z5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beautiful??? A preacher who likes boys. Not Beautiful to me

    • @HANNIBAL-z5h
      @HANNIBAL-z5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A preacher who likes boys is beautiful to you?

    • @HANNIBAL-z5h
      @HANNIBAL-z5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's an old story of preachers and boys.... that's not a beautiful story

    • @HANNIBAL-z5h
      @HANNIBAL-z5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And thank God March is coming soon. February is stupid

    • @ow3wells
      @ow3wells 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@HANNIBAL-z5hYou’re repulsive because you weren’t taught any better.

  • @mynhardtcronje8103
    @mynhardtcronje8103 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great program 👍

  • @LukeO870
    @LukeO870 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Humanity Demands Decency

    • @rriddick8571
      @rriddick8571 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      👏👏👏

  • @carolynbarr770
    @carolynbarr770 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Author Baldwin was and is one of the best, wrote through his feelings and his heart, thank U for sharing 🙏🏾

  • @MichaelCarroll-pv1mk
    @MichaelCarroll-pv1mk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Reading your book on Baldwin now, Professor Glaude.

  • @annehenderson462
    @annehenderson462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I intend to review this many, many times. Thank you.

    • @Bahiyyudin
      @Bahiyyudin 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad to see someone who has been introduced to Baldwin. Learn well.

  • @sharondavid-melly1498
    @sharondavid-melly1498 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful, wise man. Grateful for your reintroducing us to him. His books taught me much!! Love him still

  • @jonford6664
    @jonford6664 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What a cultural Icon.. Thanks for keeping Mr.Baldwin Alive and Relevant.

  • @TonyaMorgan-jv4cj
    @TonyaMorgan-jv4cj 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Truth🙏🏾

  • @trekaychris6263
    @trekaychris6263 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for this.

  • @dancarillo5461
    @dancarillo5461 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    James Baldwin is an American Patriot and a Hero of Humanity.

    • @dancarillo5461
      @dancarillo5461 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eddie Glaude sums up the quintessential meaning of what life is all about…
      WE ALL GOT TO BECOME BETTER PEOPLE (some ahelluva lot more than others)
      🇺🇸 VOTE BIDEN BLUE 🇺🇸 E PLURIBUS UNUM 🇺🇸

  • @j.p.dallas1959
    @j.p.dallas1959 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can't explain how much I Love James Baldwin ♥️ ❤️ ❤

  • @amie6085
    @amie6085 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you both for this. You've given me more language and ways to conceptualize my ongoing work with my fellow white Americans. You've also given me more reading!
    With gratitude...

  • @branevans3705
    @branevans3705 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The "facing death" part really spoke to me. I am afraid to face death and literally try not to. Is that why I sometimes feel empty? Love this show!

  • @radiance630
    @radiance630 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Eddie your favourite Burning Spear was awarded a Musical Award.
    I heard years ago in interview you mentioned you liked his music. National Award he got.

  • @cultureal9544
    @cultureal9544 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    C. J. Walker, first Woman Millionaire of her own making in the 1800s. Happy Black History Month!

  • @abeltootlejr.300
    @abeltootlejr.300 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Racial justice is not a philanthropic enterprise!" --Dr. Gaude. WOW! Dr. Gaude's statement says so much in so few words!!! I'm keeping that statement for future use, of course, with citation.

  • @wlcoston
    @wlcoston 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this discussion

  • @patriziacasagrande3833
    @patriziacasagrande3833 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    beautiful, collaboration, solidarity, community not individuality, selfishness, competition, jealousy and invidious revenge.

  • @LisaFenton-h7f
    @LisaFenton-h7f 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Besides reading James Baldwin's important non-fiction, I highly recommend his novels, too. Plus: GOOGLE the interviews & dialogues. One of the last ones was a speech he gave to the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB in 1986 or '87 about a year before his death. He remains profound to this moment, with much food for our minds, hearts & souls.

  • @RiRilove62
    @RiRilove62 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    FANTASTIC insight on James Baldwins writings

  • @sweetpeasbackyardgarden1236
    @sweetpeasbackyardgarden1236 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fire next time is my favorite work by James Baldwin. It says everything and more. The writing is splendid.

  • @AdrianWheeler-xm9ml
    @AdrianWheeler-xm9ml 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Baldwin was a visionary, poet & prophet

    • @erinmac4750
      @erinmac4750 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Truth! He resonates today as much as ever.

  • @dlw8165
    @dlw8165 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I truly like watching Baldwin's videos and reading his works.

  • @eric2500
    @eric2500 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INJECTING >>>>THOUGHTFUL

  • @NPhillyAlleyCat
    @NPhillyAlleyCat 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fire Next Time gave me a high I've been chasing for decades. Nothing like a great book

  • @Jazz313
    @Jazz313 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for sharing ❤

  • @berthabridges3483
    @berthabridges3483 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe it."
    ~ James Baldwin (1924-1987),
    American writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and social critic, activist.

  • @niccoannan2831
    @niccoannan2831 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a great conversation.

  • @melissabruhn1429
    @melissabruhn1429 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    An amazing man, philosopher & author....who stood steady in his witness.

  • @MrTwenty20video
    @MrTwenty20video 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh my. Excellent content. ✌️

  • @annehenderson462
    @annehenderson462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Powerful

  • @runoz2839
    @runoz2839 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hi👋, Handsomest Men... Men of Truth & Honor.
    Mr J. Baldwin hopefully ALL will catch on b4 it's too, late...
    just think if:
    Mr. Baldwin 🙏
    &
    Mr Malcolm X 🙏
    were still here w/ TODAY... 🤔 all I can say to would be: POWERFUL. R. I. P.

  • @rickartdefoix1298
    @rickartdefoix1298 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Consider Giovanni's Room a Masterwork. A beautiful short novel about an Art and Culture dilettante. The main character is wandering with a group of bohemians in the Fifties post War Paris. When it all starts. There's poetry in the telling and writing, there's beauty in their roaming devenir. It's a novella about Love and Friendship. That have no doubt Baldwin's life part of, taken into fiction. So, based it upon his own reality, surely. The warm feeling of an out of the blue discovery. Of a Europe where he felt much better accepted than in his own country...becomes kind of a nice fog. Through this past his foggy mind rambles. It seems to come back, the waves of a sea that's crowding his eyes of Melancholy drops. This allowed his best feelings to flourish and so, he might lived there the golden years of his life. May this have been the case of a Ben Webster, when playing better than ever. When playing his mellow and deep Saxo in Denmark while living in Amsterdam. The case of so many other living colour guys, might it have been. When feeling and being finally free to work, think. Free to speak their minds a bit everywhere. The Dream of feeling accepted becoming a reality. For isn't this a paradise in itself, for the disadvantaged of luck in any Society as many as the are⁉️ ➖think that also highbrows experience so very often, adaptation difficulties. And this again just for being more talented than their groups and classes. When at School and later. ➖Be them gays or not. We need Minorities to fulfill the Rule. For there would not be a Rule if there weren't Exceptions. In't this truth ⁉️💙😔🙏

  • @selah71
    @selah71 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Amen!

    • @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere
      @MyHalcyonDaysAreHere 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No, not Amen, Wakanda forever ! (⁠•⁠‿⁠•⁠)

    • @selah71
      @selah71 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MyHalcyonDaysAreHere
      That, too! 😊

  • @BabsBrooklynPilates
    @BabsBrooklynPilates 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. His prose is like music. Everyone should read him. This video was well worth watching.

  • @jawarablake
    @jawarablake 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the great loves I have for reading is because of Baldwin.

  • @loredanawilkerson6899
    @loredanawilkerson6899 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Why is it that some so want to look as a beautiful as Polynesian natives? Truly admiring their looks, which had come about with "mixing." Would that logic give them a clue to show any racists out there that blending accomplishes that "look" much sought after. All people are equal regardless of color or ethnicity. Be an admired bouquet of a variety of flowers... love the differences that can so easily blend together for all to enjoy and admire. It's easy really.

  • @silverbeautifullight
    @silverbeautifullight 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Racial justice is not a philanthropic enterprise. It's not a charitable gesture. If we want to be better people, we gotta look ourselves in the mirror." 💯

  • @carolynthomas7809
    @carolynthomas7809 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Best Author ever.

  • @ReadWell572
    @ReadWell572 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    the good intentions of humans do not create life. neither can these good intentions sustain life. Humans must accept boundaries.
    You need life to create your life-style. Life must come first. Life always deserves the respect of all humans- first.
    This is the only style life understands.

  • @Olive_O_Sudden
    @Olive_O_Sudden 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why would a white liberal want to read "The Fire Next Time"? Because it's spectacular and challenging and an example of poetic, literary brilliance.

  • @simonssays78
    @simonssays78 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This book woke me up in my early 20’s in the late 90’s

  • @stevebarsony7178
    @stevebarsony7178 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice show

  • @sistersnake4629
    @sistersnake4629 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Really appreciate Eddie G .He is brilliant

  • @BMW-pk6nh
    @BMW-pk6nh 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic

  • @charlotteaobrien320
    @charlotteaobrien320 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "HopeIsTheThingWithFeathersThatFluttersInTheSoulAndSingsTheSongWithoutTheWordsThatNeverStopAtAll.

  • @StacyJenkins-k1e
    @StacyJenkins-k1e 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He was such a passionate writer that was able to connect everyone to the global community and especially the American community. He went a step further by being able to stress the struggle of the African American plight in a post slave society, to the most stubborn White Americans to actually listen and contemplate the American sin. Baldwin definitely presented humanity on a platter in expressive, inspirational, in revelations. I love that in regards to White Americans will never understand who they really are, without learning who everyone else is without a dollar being placed on the value of it.

  • @RobertRodgers-r5h
    @RobertRodgers-r5h 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Outstanding! I am also commenting to help this video with the algorithm.

  • @arayasunshine9172
    @arayasunshine9172 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    James Baldwin the GOAT

  • @renegaderunner332
    @renegaderunner332 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    James Baldwin is one the greatest artists in history!

  • @brandonangstman
    @brandonangstman 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Baldwin was an excellent debater.

  • @melissabrown2192
    @melissabrown2192 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that MSNBC now highlights the banned books. I make it my mission to buy each and every one of them.

  • @johnknowssports5624
    @johnknowssports5624 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Eddie Glaude is such an Amazing Scholar.
    A very sound and thoughtful voice for America

  • @s.rosesmith6525
    @s.rosesmith6525 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The only difference is our skin tones. Underneath it all we are the same. We live, then we die.

  • @georgelayton6641
    @georgelayton6641 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think that the difference is the embracement of introversion while introspection is vilified.

  • @ruthwindham1554
    @ruthwindham1554 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤ James Baldwin!

  • @loon0493
    @loon0493 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fire next time should be required reading in high school

  • @Food4CriticalThought
    @Food4CriticalThought 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    But we are still violent colonizing racists.

  • @KLTChannel
    @KLTChannel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Fire Next Time is Amazing!

  • @bassman777
    @bassman777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "I'm looking at the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer: if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a...change" - Michael Jackson

  • @Brick_Squared
    @Brick_Squared 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What James, Martin, Malcolm and Marcus fought for *still* has not been realized. Thought the death brings closure is a fantasy. "We are coming to get our check." - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • @zenadra
    @zenadra 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You cannot become what you want to be without change.

    • @ribbrascal
      @ribbrascal 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Deep

  • @MercutioGoinsSr
    @MercutioGoinsSr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2 great books

  • @EmoTaurus
    @EmoTaurus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He was everything

  • @rhondabailey4444
    @rhondabailey4444 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amen