James Baldwin quote — “There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do…”

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There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

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There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, t…

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There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the po…

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