Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins to discuss his new biography on the late, great American writer James Baldwin and the lessons his thoughts on race still hold for America in the age of Trump. Aired on 7/06/2020.
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What James Baldwin's Work Means For A Nation Having A Reckoning On Race | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
…with liberty and justice for some.
And even the liberty is questionable.
James Baldwin’s writing’s are almost the perfect summation of a Bernie Sanders Political campaign. Hugely disappointing that we have ‘the lessor of two evils’ candidate instead!!
Even more disappointing that so many are trying to get Trump re-elected by infighting after a decision went against them.
@MVVpro Nothing further from the truth (Trump is a Narcissistic Tyrant who has to go) and I will vote that way but Joe ‘Nothing will fundamentally change’ Biden is not going to help anybody but his donors and Wall St. Professor Barbara Ransby (Columbia University) said it beatifully a couple of days ago. ‘Joe Biden is so out of touch for this moment that it is depressing’!
I had an old drawing joke about the lesser of two weavils. It’s visual so not punchline here, sorry.
@Romulus Yet he’s the only one who honestly cared about the black voters. People were blind not to see it. A foolishly missed opportunity.
JFK was looking at M4A. Looked what happened to him. It’s almost as of Americans are masochistic. Let’s not vote for the one who cares but the one with the biggest mouth.
One of my favorite authors, indeed one of America’s best writers, Baldwin knew how to define moments. His was a clarion voice of the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s; but both his essays and fiction spoke to for and from the heart of America.
Bowman Productions : So, because Biden was RIGHT when he said, “if you vote trump, you ain’t black,” the desperate GOP have come up with a scheme to steal black votes from him, by putting the mentally ill Kanye West in the field. That’s where America is at. Baldwin’s subtleties are drowned out in the noise . . . Heal the wounds of the Civil War, or have another one . . .
@Ash Roskell Again – West was kidding. Don’t tell us you believed that.
James Baldwin real Black Man with Convictions, Intelligence, Writer, Actor, Humanitarian, Activists before and beyond his time on this earth such a pleasure knowing him & gaining wisdom as a Black Woman in America.
Wow! I would have loved to have had the opportunity to have a long conversation with him. It would have been heaven on earth. 😃
If he doesn’t vote republican, he ain’t black.
Nathaniel, etc : Thanks for making my point, son. Because Biden was RIGHT when he said, “if you vote trump, you ain’t black,” the desperate GOP have come up with a scheme to steal black votes from him, by putting the mentally ill Kanye West in the field. That’s where America is at. Baldwin’s subtleties are drowned out in the noise . . . Heal the wounds of the Civil War, or have another one . . .
@Ash Roskell omg, you’re an absolute *_perfect_* example of a democrat who follows *_Margaret Sanger!_* What do you like the most about Margaret Sanger? The baby murder of black people? Her praise of the KKK? Or … maybe … the pedophilia?
The only good thing that could from t’rump’s presidency is that after 4 years of his daily assault of racism, America stands up as one large mass and says, “Nope!”
But if not, I’ll take him dying from the corona in jail as a consolation prize. 😛😝
@26 different qurans is ‘perfect quran preservation’ OMG what is that
@26 different qurans is ‘perfect quran preservation’, really? From what I’ve seen, we’re demanding equal rights (as guaranteed in the Constitution) while the KKK is about fear and oppression.
@Pamela Porter Would this be a good time to remind “26” that David Dukes is a huge t’rump supporter? 🤔😆
But only after he’s been in jail for at last a year – preferably in solitary confinement.
@Margaret Nicol No access to his hair spray, or a tanning bed…he’s going to be one sad sack after those 12 months!
aye keep it up!
I guess you’ll have to forgiveI’m not doing a lot of the protest maybe if it continues in St John’s I will but you know what I’m tired of black lives matter I was here when we had Reverend Jesse Jackson and we should have got shell or she’ll else sharpton whatever-his-name-is anyway so I can’t listen to this but I’m sure that I agree with the first sentence
the price of the ticket.
I remember reading and enjoying Baldwin’s essays in freshman English.
Obviously Divided States of America is not changing. Proof is still in the White House.
Bring us words of peace, not war.
Bring us feelings of hope, not despair
Bring us a vision of the future, not scare us with fear from the past
Bring us the sound of a billion voices together. Colleen B Kelly
Beautifully stated. Thank you.
I am WHITE, and James Baldwin is one of my heroes
Morris Bravo
His debate speech vs. W. F. Buckley Jr.
He was articulate, brave and precise..
He had truth and history on his side, and wielded it masterfully.
So you have to be Black to like James Baldwin. Please sir stop making the reference of your Nationality just to justify that you like an intelligent Author and Poet. I’m Black and I love Mark Twains books but I don’t reference my Nationality just to say I like intelligent readings. You make it obvious to people with little or no education that maybe your just pandering. Just say you like the man period.
@Shawn Gill The subtleties may have escaped him but, bless him, he’s trying.
I’m white and I love James Earl Jones.
Do you see how silly that comes across? 🙂
@Margaret Nicol Thank you Margaret. Be Blessed.
Schools need to start teaching real, true, hard history instead of the Disney version!
This explains why:
https://youtu.be/dOkFXPblLpU
hhhh9579 STFU
@hhhh9579 Take a look around. If every black person walked out of their jobs this country would collapse. Get over yourself.
I disagree that all ages of children should know everything. The truth is harsh, cruel, dis-couraging ( in the literal sense ). Aristotle said the students should learn what is appropriate to their UNDERSTANDING.Young adults always fume that they were not taught this or that in school like they were cheated. Whoever told them that everything they know needs to come from a schoolroom. School teaches you to learn. We are not buckets to be filled.
@Virginia O’Flaherty I agree that teaching should be age appropriate, however, when you’ve asked a teenager on Independence Day who or what we became ‘independent’ of and they don’t know the answer – there is something desperately missing.
Baldwin spoke of American history not mythology.
A half century ago I took every civil rights and Black studies course available at my university, both of them. Today, we assume that every university will have a Black studies department with many more than two available course, yet there is still so much territory yet to cover.
1:53. I like that quote, but people who don’t look at their entire history (ie Black or Greek)– then you’re forever stuck on what could’ve been and unfortunately blacks were the last majority slaves, they were not the last or the first. If you don’t know about the islands like Puerto Rico, then you don’t know what happened to slavery in the beginning or especially the end.
(2:14)
2:55. That’s definitely a question to ask.
I have read that it’s a good thing that black people seek only equality and not revenge.
or it will be shocking if we don’t have 70,000 deaths in 120 days