As if Oya and Shango had a black American baby - delivered on a stormy Saturday -- at Harlem hospital.
Imagine being born on the day, the day Hannibal defeats the Roman Empire.
Standing there effortlessly dismantling the claims of The Monster. As if the ancestors were talking to him...
Weaponized by momma Africa 🌍 with the right tools, used at the right time -- delivered with force.
— James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley
-- The Entire Debate --
"What we are not facing is the result of what we've done. What one begs the American people to do, for all our fates, is simply to accept our history."
— James Baldwin, in debate with William F. Buckley"
@Cambridge_Uni, 1965
Dismantling Colorblind Racism
“You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me exists in America, which I have never seen.”
"I Am Not Your Negro"
: "...in 1948 I left this country for one reason only" ... The years I lived in Paris did one thing for me: they released me from that particular social terror, which was not the paranoia of my own mind, but a real social danger visible
...in the face of every cop, every boss, everybody. ... "
“… If I'm not a nigger and you invented him -- you, the white people, invented him -- then you've got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that, whether or not it's able to ask that question."
— James Baldwin
“But if I walk into your nightmare, and react to what you see, I become what you say I am.
And then you’ve won, or in any case I’ve lost.”
JAMES BALDWIN, BBC interview in 1984.
#CriticalRaceTheory
"I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will EVER forgive them,
... that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.
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