James Baldwin - The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity

The Struggle, New York 1963

YouTube comment (not my own):

Baldwin goes on to say a bit more after this cuts off:
“It is spectacular for example, to have been forced ultimately to bring in the entire whatever-it-was… militia, US marshals - to get James Meredith into school, and from a certain point of view, which I do not at all share, I can see that one could say that no other country would have done it. It’s escaped everybody’s notice that no other country would have had to. It is easy to admire the sit-in students in the South, and nothing is more delightful than to talk to Martin Luther King, whom I very much admire. But it is too easy to admire a Christian minister, especially if you take no responsibility for what’s happening to him or to those people that he tries to represent. It is hard to begin to understand that the drift in American life towards chaos is masked by all these smiling faces and all these do-good efforts.”

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