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Uploaded by on May 8, 2008

James Baldwin in an interview with dr Kenneth Clark in 1963
it is all incredibly lucid.
The last question, oh, that question is still waiting for an answer.
Entrevista del Dr Kenneth Clark a James Baldwin en 1963. Toda la entrevista es increíblemente lúcida y la última pregunta, bueno, esa pregunta sigue sin respuesta

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  • Estou traduzindo este vídeo mas nao concordo em muito. Malcolm X não pregava a supremacia negra e sim a auto-defesa. Ele possuia aparentemente um carater racista, que perdeu após ir a Mecca, mas os brancos dos EUA que deram força a vóz de Malcolm

  • entao um obrigado duplo por fazer o travalho mesmo discordando, muito obrigado

  • para activar los subtítulos haga clik en el último rectangulito de la esquina inferior derecha de la pantalla del video. Si necesita más ayuda avise que con gusto le aclararé lo que haga falta.

  • James Baldwin - the most brilliant star in the firmament of mid-century genius!

    I do believe that his time was the apex of American intellectual (though of course not political or moral) culture.

  • I agree, we need to become better than we all are, we need a new renasance

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  • "If you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it."

  • James Baldwin, a brilliant thinker and orator!

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  • I miss James Baldwin so much.

  • The problem with African Americans today, is trying to connect themselves with current celebrities, people who have nothing to offer positive, much like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton. I'm Hispanic, but my role models are those who changed the lives of millions, not because they can play guitar or something, but because they were incredible human beings.

    Any African Americans reading this, please reply: Have you read Frederick Douglass? What a lesson his life is.

  • i think the reason for having a "nigger" is to justify the sickening treatment of black people by white people from the very start of slavery. (and before that, because they must've been incredibly blinded by their white supremacist beliefs to even begin to think that slavery or any kind of discrimination was an option) but i dont know yet why the whole "white supremacist" thing got started back in europe before any white people came across the atlantic

  • Strange, that I grew up in this era, was at the time aware of the perceived divergence of their views, yet it's only in looking back that I can discern how picayune were the supposed differences, how much more they actually held in common, and how the prevailing culture was able to portray them as opponents, rather than pilgrims on the same journey.

  • Que hombre mas inteligente. Esa pregunta al final - muy interesante y nunca la he oido hecho en los discursos politicos en este pais.

  • I believe what he was saying that there was a question that he believed white america (who whether through apathy or direct involvement) supported the idea of white racial superiority and the institutions and/or practices that enable and promote that kind of thinking needs to ask itself why it feels the need for it to be necessary to have a "nigger" in the first place...in other words, "Why is the need for a whole race of people to be categorized as "less than"..

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