That Day at Cambridge University...

The day White Supremacy walked into Cambridge a King and left a Pawn.

The day #WhiteSupremacy met a Mr. James Baldwin -- from Harlem, NY.

#BlackLivesMatter
#WalkAway #MAGA
#BlackHistoryMonth

Standing there effortlessly dismantling the claims of The Monster. As if the ancestors were talking to him...

As if Oya and Shango had a black American baby - delivered on a stormy Saturday -- at Harlem hospital.

Imagine being born on the day Hannibal defeats the Roman Empire.

Weaponized by momma Africa with the right tools, used at the right time -- delivered with force.

“It comes as a great shock...to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance...has not pledged allegiance to you.”

“… If I'm not a nigger and you invented him -- you, the white people, invented him -- then you've got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that, whether or not it's able to ask that question."

— James Baldwin

“I have to speak as one of the people who’ve been most attacked by...the Western or the European system of reality...white supremacy...white supremacy comes from Europe...”
James Baldwin

Baldwin vs William F. Buckley

#WhiteSupremacistTerrorism

“When I was growing up, I was taught in American history books, that #Africa had no history, and neither did I. That I was a savage about whom the less said, the better, who had been saved by Europe and brought to America ...

#BlackHistoryMonth

And, of course, I believed it. I didn’t have much choice.”

- James Baldwin

The ENTIRE debate: https://twitter.com/Bdwal359/status/1229760152976470016?s=19

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity."

--- James Baldwin

"The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen,

... or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world's most direct and virile, that American women are pure.

Negroes know far more about white Americans than that; it can almost be said, in fact, that they know about white Americans what parents—or, anyway, mothers—know about their children, and that they very often regard white Americans that way.

And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred.

The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"How can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will EVER forgive them,

... that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been ...

... best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as...

... possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do

... (and how you could do it) and where you could live and whom you could marry. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying "You exaggerate."