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Hard to justify my despair after listening to him.

Brilliant monologue.

Eddie Glaude did a book called Begin Again about Baldwin. Pretty interesting.

What a beautiful mind James Baldwin had.

I love videos of the Man Himself speaking. He's so done trying not to challenge people, he's directly challenging, but never unkind about it. It's a rare rhetorical stance.

One of the reasons for the societal collapse is the domination of an adoration of the self over any sense of community belonging. It's not an accident that this collapse is mirroring the ecological collapse.

I've been thinking a lot about 'Another Country' recently. It struck me when I read it, and of the books I've read is one that comes to mind most often.

Terence Dixon doesn't seem to be buying it though. His montage sharply undercuts Baldwin's words.

I've seen this clip being shared so many times over the last 2 and a bit years , commenting on how people in Gaza manage to endure the genocidal onslaught they are subjected to. So true of any society under violence. Community and solidarity will save us all from the monsters around us.

Always powerful.

Assume you know this already but sharing for those who may not be familiar with the (televised) debate between James Baldwin and the conservative William F. Buckley, held on 18 February 1965 in Cambridge, England.