Thank you Dr. Eddie, I appreciate your voice and the reminder of the voice of James Baldwin. I will have to go back and re-read his prophetic voice. I look toward to reading your new book as well. I feel like we are living the nightmare of our ancestors. But we must resist!
I so appreciate your anger tempered with truth and love! These are the qualities we will need in abundance if we are to find our way through harsh wilderness that we face.
Is James Baldwin the author who talked about standing out in the street and looking at white people's houses and wanting to be let inside? I read about that when I was in college. I loved the "Black Renaissance" period of literature. I am not black but I could relate, in a small way, to being shut out because it never mattered what I did or how well I did, my parents never accepted me.
Hi Rebecca! I love what you wrote. And yes, it was James Baldwin, but the moment you’re remembering isn’t about wanting entry into white people’s houses so much as recognizing what those houses symbolized in America: safety, belonging, humanity. Baldwin wrote often about standing outside the structures that white Americans built and being told that he didn’t belong inside them. He talks about watching "White life" from the outside and realizing that the “inside” was never designed with Black folk in mind. The ache wasn’t jealousy. It was the clarity that a whole society had been organized to keep some people in and others out. And I'm no Baldwin scholar by any means, but the way he writes, invites all of us to connect without obscuring the truth... I'm not sure I'm saying that right -- but I think you know what I mean.
Thank you so much for the explanation. I knew he wasn't talking about jealously but the way you worded it explains so much more than I had thought about.
Dr. Glaude, early congrats on this month’s paperback release of “We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For.” I just finished it a couple of weeks ago and have so many notes and thoughts to digest. Your voice is needed for such a time as this. Looking forward to the nuggets in America, USA!
Thank you Dr. Eddie, I appreciate your voice and the reminder of the voice of James Baldwin. I will have to go back and re-read his prophetic voice. I look toward to reading your new book as well. I feel like we are living the nightmare of our ancestors. But we must resist!
Looking so forward to this. And was so pleased to hear you interviewed at length on the recent Throughline episode!!
I have this book, but I don’t yet have the energy to feel the rage I expect when I read it
I so appreciate your anger tempered with truth and love! These are the qualities we will need in abundance if we are to find our way through harsh wilderness that we face.
Is James Baldwin the author who talked about standing out in the street and looking at white people's houses and wanting to be let inside? I read about that when I was in college. I loved the "Black Renaissance" period of literature. I am not black but I could relate, in a small way, to being shut out because it never mattered what I did or how well I did, my parents never accepted me.
Hi Rebecca! I love what you wrote. And yes, it was James Baldwin, but the moment you’re remembering isn’t about wanting entry into white people’s houses so much as recognizing what those houses symbolized in America: safety, belonging, humanity. Baldwin wrote often about standing outside the structures that white Americans built and being told that he didn’t belong inside them. He talks about watching "White life" from the outside and realizing that the “inside” was never designed with Black folk in mind. The ache wasn’t jealousy. It was the clarity that a whole society had been organized to keep some people in and others out. And I'm no Baldwin scholar by any means, but the way he writes, invites all of us to connect without obscuring the truth... I'm not sure I'm saying that right -- but I think you know what I mean.
Thank you so much for the explanation. I knew he wasn't talking about jealously but the way you worded it explains so much more than I had thought about.
Dr. Glaude, early congrats on this month’s paperback release of “We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For.” I just finished it a couple of weeks ago and have so many notes and thoughts to digest. Your voice is needed for such a time as this. Looking forward to the nuggets in America, USA!