I Am Not Your Negro

The truth is that this country does not know what to do with its black population, dreaming of anything like “the final solution.” THE NEGRO AND THE AMERICAN PROMISE - 1963 - JAMES BALDWIN: The Negro has never been as docile as white Americans wanted to believe. Bureau files reveal that Baldwin, a negro author, was born in NYC and has lived and travelled in Europe. They are seven out of some two hundred thousand American citizens who came to the capital to march for freedom and for jobs. White people have managed to get through entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac.