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4.61 AVERAGE
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Essential reading from the brilliant James Baldwin on the troubling realities of race in America.
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It doesn't make any sense for me to try to review this masterpiece in conventional terms, so I won't. I will say a) you need context to fully read it, and you need to read it, so go get that context, and b) that it's fascinating to see what a world on the possible brink of revolution in 1963 looked like, and what a world on the possible brink of revolution looks like in 2020.
"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"
I think we can unequivocally answer this rhetorical question. Let it burn down, and see what we can build in its place.
"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"
I think we can unequivocally answer this rhetorical question. Let it burn down, and see what we can build in its place.
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Prescient as ever. I dare to hope the call Baldwin cried out for nearly 60 years ago will take place. That “we... do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history books f the world.”
Incandescent. Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house? (p. 127)
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