No Name in the Street
Something has gone violently wrong In a nation when government dares attempt to muzzle the press—a press already quite supine enough—and to intimidate reporters by the use of subpoena.
- James Baldwin
“For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, ‘Do you hate me?’ The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! “Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I’m snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?”
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No Name in the Street
The truth is that this country does not know what to do with its black population now that the black’s are no linger a source of wealth, are no longer to be bought and sold and bred, like cattle; and they especially do jot know what to do with young black men, who pose as devastating a threat to the economy as they do to the morals of young white cheerleaders.
- James Baldwin “No Name in the Street”
