"This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt."
The words are of #JamesBaldwin but they speak of the colonised people everywhere, even those who have risen to power in our world
The words are of #JamesBaldwin but they speak of the colonised people everywhere, even those who have risen to power in our world
In the autobiographical notes of Notes on a Native Son,
#JamesBaldwin is frank to confess that, in growing into his version of manhood in Harlem, he discovered that, since his African heritage had been wiped out and was not accessible to him
#JamesBaldwin is frank to confess that, in growing into his version of manhood in Harlem, he discovered that, since his African heritage had been wiped out and was not accessible to him
he would appropriate the white man's heritage and make it his own. This terrible reality, central to the psychic stance of all American Negroes, revealed to Baldwin that he hated and feared white people.
From Eldridge Cleaver #SoulOnIce
From Eldridge Cleaver #SoulOnIce
There is no success unless it is the White Man's success, hence our continued desire to find geniuses like the White Man's, to find lacunae in our heritage and thence to glorify and extoll our heritage to say 'look, we also have a white man's past'
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