Professor and writer Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses his new book 'Begin Again,' on the life of James Baldwin and he also discusses the Princeton University Board of Trustees voting on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs. Aired on 06/29/2020.
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The Rage And Love Of James Baldwin | Morning Joe | MSNBC
James Baldwin truly has some beautiful lessons to teach the American people if only they’d pay attention.
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Yes, though the context for this quote is wrong@Kepler Mission.
Jeffrey Dahmer u r a dead person Jeffrey – werent u executed? Now r u Coming back from the “other side”? Liberals could learn Treason? Like t not supporting USA military men and women – a bounty by trump’s bestie friend putin. R U living in moscow jef.. or no korea or beijing or tehran? Or r u living in gramma’s basement? R U a Traitor too – what say u? Whats it like “over there” on that “other side”?
@Jeffrey Dahmer Wow!?! are you drunk?
No matter how dark, we need to have faith! Absolutely Eddie! Best quote I’ve heard all day 🙌💯
Thanh Mai shut up viet Kong
@Jane Doe Nice bit of racism
Rename the Wilson school after James Baldwin.
Glaude has the best bookshelf I’ve seen on TV during this pandemic.
I know right? But I wouldn’t mind getting a better view of Meacham’s as well. In fact, I’d happily watch an episode of MJ where instead of showing us the talking heads, the camera would pan slowly (and closely) across their bookshelves. (I know that ain’t gonna happen – especially when the talkers are essentially their own camera operators. At least in the age of COVID we know these are real books and bookshelves and not studio props in most cases.)
Certainly Seems like it.
ToniMorrison, etc, Man has a Great Understanding about America.
I look forward to t’rump hearing about this news, asking who Woodrow Wilson is, consulting with Hannity, and then offering his rejection of the idea. 😅😂🤣
Omg. It would be an affront to decency if trump has his name put on some building to honor his “presidential legacy”. So I hope that by Princeton taking off Woodrow Wilson’s name, it will disabuse trump of that fantasy.
America will never overcome racism. Americans needs to look at racism as a whole and not just one sided.
westlad : You have far more FAITH in America than the rest of the world does. Especially From America’s Neighbours.
It begins with educating the youth of this nation, and for woke people to learn the true American history, and use those critical thinking skills! If not then we are already too late and lost!
It’s a terrorist group the same thing they called the Black Panther’s who were far from being a terrorist group.
Brb… ordering this book right now.
John Watt he’s written so many! which one are you thinking of?
Everyone needs to read the Baldwin short story “Going to Meet the Man” about a lynching from the point of view of a white Southern sheriff who witnessed it as a child. It’s actually based on a real lynching that took place in Texas. W.E.B Du Bois kept hoping America would change, believing for almost 60 years America could be humane and just. And it was as an 80 year old man, he finally realized that was a pipe dream. He moved to Ghana, giving up his citizenship, living out his remaining years in Ghana West Africa. They will NEVER change.
this white woman is proof positive that change is not only possible but inevitable
As a young teenager I was confused by American news. My Scottish parents suggested I read a book
by James Baldwin if I wanted to understand more. I haven’t forgotten.
Which of his books did you read. Asking from Germany. I need to buy it.
what did you read?
Instead of treating the negative effects of racism on black people, and other ethnic minorities. America has to first start addressing the white problem of being racist.
James Baldwin
Of course no Black’s are Racist By your ignorant comment I can tell your a lily White race-baiter
Carlos Stranger who says blacks can’t be racist? The fact that the power of prejudice in America is largely in the hand of the white community
When people fear the truth, they dislike its delivery AND the person giving it.
The messenger of bad news used to be killed in the middle-age. Guess things haven’t changed much. Humans are by far the most stupid species on this planet.
,only and when all people come to realization that we are all one, regardless what color skin …
I’ve read several of James Baldwin’s books over the years trying to better understand and better empathize with the black experience in America. As a white man, I’ll never fully understand, but it is so important that we try if we are to ever heal this country.
but most of all our soul, should be in peace with the mos high God/Jesus
My suggestion is learn American history….the real version
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have” (quote Alex Baldwin)
Interesting thought/observation seeing it happen under our nose!
James Baldwin is a national treasure. We should be naming schools and erecting statues to him. NO he is not a saint. No human is. However, if we are to crave stone in the image of man. He was/is a someone worthy of our resources.
“You don’t be afraid, I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. But these men are your brothers- your lost, younger brothers. And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it. Great men have done great things here and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard James, but you came from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity. You come from a long line of great poet’s, some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said, The very time I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.
You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom, one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you, James, and Godspeed.
Your Uncle, James”
– “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Americans must come to realize, in complete societal terms, that EVERY American HAS TO BE living a life without prejudiced and injustice.
Students need to learn this in the universities to about James Baldwin.
I Love James Baldwin’s Writings. It sounds like a Great Book.EVERYONE IS CREATED EQUAL.COLOR,CREED,RELIGION,NATIONALITY. WE ARE ALL HUMAN
James Baldwin’s intelligence is deep and profound, notice I said “IS” – his legacy is universal and alive more than ever.