“This dream is at the expense of the American Negro……In the Deep South you are dealing with the sheriff, or the land lady or landlord or the woman at the Western Union desk……But what is happening in the poor woman’s; the poor man’s mind is this. They have been raised to believe, and by now they helplessly believe that no matter how terrible their lives may be and their lives have been quite terrible, and no matter how far they fall, no matter what disaster overtakes them, they have on enormous knowledge and consolation which is like a heavenly revelation, at least they are not black. Now I suggest that of all the terrible things that can happen to a human being that is one of the worst. I suggest that what has happened to white southerners is in some ways, after all, much worse than what has happened to Negros there”….. Because Sherriff Clark in Selma Alabama…….. He doesn’t know what drives him to use the club, to menace with the gun and to use the cattle prod. Something awful must have happened to a human being to be able to put a cattle prod against a woman’s breast for example, what happens to the woman is ghastly, what happens to the man who does it, is in some ways much, much worse, This is being done after all not a hundred years ago but in 1965….” James Baldwin
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:12:14 +0000
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