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gardnerhere 's review for:
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Not sure why I didn't write this up a few months ago when I read it, but it should suffice for a review to say that I have already reread it.
In the opening section, written directly to his namesake nephew, Baldwin writes the "crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, [is] that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it," and quick on the heels of Coates' We Were 8 Years in Power and his deep dive into the carceral state it's difficult to believe that this sentence has aged a day in more than forty years.
In the opening section, written directly to his namesake nephew, Baldwin writes the "crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, [is] that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it," and quick on the heels of Coates' We Were 8 Years in Power and his deep dive into the carceral state it's difficult to believe that this sentence has aged a day in more than forty years.