So i do think theres a conflict there, but i dont think hes like giving up the idea of a claim to some sort of absolute. I just dont know what it is. What about that quotation which each of us gave a version of it, didnt we . In my version, he says the white communitys entitled to prevail politically because for the time being, anyway, the leaders of American Civilization are white. So he isnt saying theyre destined to be the leaders because of their whiteness. Hes saying at the moment they just happen to be. Thats right. In the version i have he says not that the leaders are white but that the white race is for the time being the advanced race which is a slightly different statement to make, actually. Thats right. You know, and for the time being and that gets into this whole thing im talking about. Again, i think its kind of a fantasy that segregation could be used as a way of imposing superiors for a way for the negro to evolve or come up out of this backwardness. You know, i just i
So i do think theres a conflict there, but i dont think hes like giving up the idea of a claim to some sort of absolute. I just dont know what it is. What about that quotation which each of us gave a version of it, didnt we . In my version, he says the white communitys entitled to prevail politically because for the time being, anyway, the leaders of American Civilization are white. So he isnt saying theyre destined to be the leaders because of their whiteness. Hes saying at the moment they just happen to be. Thats right. In the version i have he says not that the leaders are white but that the white race is for the time being the advanced race which is a slightly different statement to make, actually. Thats right. You know, and for the time being and that gets into this whole thing im talking about. Again, i think its kind of a fantasy that segregation could be used as a way of imposing superiors for a way for the negro to evolve or come up out of this backwardness. You know, i just i
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In 1965, a reporter for
Cumhuriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, asked the novelist, playwright, and essayist James Baldwin then living in Istanbul about his dreams for the future of the United States. Baldwin, in his reply, chose instead to talk about the
history of the United States. He explained that the future he imagined already existed in the past of the country, namely in the Reconstruction era. “Black and white people were side by side even in trade unions in the South,” Baldwin said, and continued: “We had Black members in Parliament. … Unfortunately, northern capitalists and southern landlords [
aghas] destroyed this unity and order.”