James Baldwin (Aug. 2, 1924 – Dec. 1, 1987)
photo by Dmitri Kasterine, James Baldwin, France, 1979
Happy birthday, Jimmy.
Let’s hope it isn’t too late to listen, listen intently, carefully, minds open, hearts full. Let’s hope…
Negroes have always held, the lowest jobs, the most menial jobs, which are now being destroyed by automation. No remote provision has yet been made to absorb this labor surplus. Furthermore, the Negro’s education, North and South, remains, almost totally, a segregated education. And, the police treat the Negro like a dog.
James Baldwin, July 11, 1966, The Nation
James Baldwin
(Delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child – His Self-Image”; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, reprinted in The Price
