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"ESQ: How can we get the black people to cool it?

"JAMES BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it.

"ESQ: But aren't you the ones who are getting hurt the most?

"JAMES BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest."

esquire.com/news-politics/a239

Esquire's "How To Cool It" interview with James Baldwin was 1968.

He wrote "The White Problem" in 1964.

This interview was 1963: youtu.be/FpRziHGxeEU

I reiterate and update here something I've said elsewhere, before:

60 years later, and James Baldwin would still, sadly, recognize these streets.

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(Also note that they cut Baldwin's mic on "The Florida Forum" The Very Moment he starts referring to the Black Civil Rights movement as an "American Revolution.")

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@Wolven
Love, love, love Baldwin

He should be taught in every high school.

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"What causes the eruptions, the riots, the revolts- whatever you want to call them- is the despair of being in a static position, absolutely static, of watching your father, your brother, your uncle, or your cousin- no matter how old the black cat is or how young- who has no future."
- James Baldwin

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