"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."
https://esquire.com/news-politics/a23960/james-baldwin-cool-it/
(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.")
@Wolven
Love, love, love Baldwin
He should be taught in every high school.
@Wolven Thanks. This archived version is accessible to anyone who doesn't have a subscription.
"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
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.