Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a></p><p>"Five years after George Floyd, many liberals blame 'wokeness' for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with? </p><p>On February 18, 1965, students at Cambridge University assembled for a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. on the topic of racism in America. Before a rapt audience, Baldwin spoke of not only the stolen labor of slaves that had enriched the Southern economy but also the daily humiliations of being Black — 'the policeman, the taxi drivers, the waiters, the landlady, the landlord, the banks, the insurance companies, the millions of details 24 hours of every day which spell out to you that you are a worthless human being.' </p><p>Buckley, in his famous mid-Atlantic sneer, responded that the economic condition of Black Americans had risen so greatly since slavery that they had, essentially, nothing to complain about. Of course, Buckley was lying through his teeth: Almost half of all Black Americans were living in poverty. His real disagreement with Baldwin lay at the social level. The odious behavior of a few individual whites was regrettable, but it was no great obstacle. The real problem was that Black people lacked the kind of serious moral and intellectual 'energy' necessary to produce a professional elite. Instead, the civil-rights movement had encouraged a self-defeating posture of victimhood among Black people that young white liberals were all too eager to affirm. Thanks to the 'generosity' of white Americans, Black people had already attained economic justice, Buckley suggested. The last thing they needed was social justice too.</p><p>(. . .)</p><p>Another way to put this is that all social movements are also intellectual movements: They both contribute to and rely on the ideological groundwater of society. Williams would have us believe that someone who smashes a storefront window in Minneapolis or pitches a tent in Morningside Heights is engaged in the opposite of thinking. But the panicking ruling class wasn’t just interested in flattening the encampments or quelling the looters; it wanted to crush the ideas that these things represented. This is what Baldwin was getting at when he spoke of the 'spiritual state' of America. 'The political institutions of any nation,' he wrote in *The Fire Next Time*, 'are always menaced and controlled by the spiritual state of that nation.' What he meant, I think, was that every time a person contests or defends a political situation, they are also contesting or defending the intellectual terms on which that contest is conducted. You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight. That is why Williams cares so desperately about what the summer of 2020 made us think, even if the protests manifestly failed to achieve their objective goals; it is also why liberal institutions were so eager to snatch up these ideas and exhaust their potential before tossing us back the husks. What Mamdani’s win suggests, however, is that they did not get them all."</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/JcgcM#selection-2581.0-2597.692" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.ph/JcgcM#selection-258</span><span class="invisible">1.0-2597.692</span></a></p>
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:<p>Happy birthday, James Baldwin (it was actually yesterday, August 2nd).</p><p>Some selected reads…</p><p>Another Country:<br><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/628954c7-a391-418f-a515-1d7c9b482733" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/books/62</span><span class="invisible">8954c7-a391-418f-a515-1d7c9b482733</span></a></p><p>The Fire Next Time:<br><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9ef6bf14-d9f8-4cd1-97bb-43f541a1c26a" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/books/9e</span><span class="invisible">f6bf14-d9f8-4cd1-97bb-43f541a1c26a</span></a></p><p>Collected Essays:<br><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a25c091-98be-4c30-bef6-638f543a5d19" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a</span><span class="invisible">25c091-98be-4c30-bef6-638f543a5d19</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HappyBirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HappyBirthday</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activist</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>
Omar Moore<p>WATCH FREE: James Baldwin 1964 documentary "Take This Hammer" (uncut edition), directed by Richard O. Moore: </p><p><a href="https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/216518" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfba</span><span class="invisible">tv/bundles/216518</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>happybirthday</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1924, author and social critic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> was born in Harlem, NYC. He moved to France to escape <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> but came back to participate in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> marches. The FBI compiled a massive dossier on him. The US cannot change without facing its vile past.</p>
Monarkie<p>It's <a href="https://babyhollywood.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> day... Take some time and go watch "I Am Not Your Negro" ... And prolly shut up as well ... </p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_Your_Negro" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_N</span><span class="invisible">ot_Your_Negro</span></a></p>
Gamwise Samgee<p>Happy 101st James Baldwin.</p><p>His work echoes beyond his time, opening the eyes of others and giving voice to those without.</p><p>"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."</p><p>Thank you for everything.</p><p><a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Tony Pennino<p>“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”<br>Happy birthday, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a></p>
Mark Kraft<p>I will celebrate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a>'s 101st birthday. He is perhaps my favorite American. <br>I especially congratulate him for scaring the hell out of Bobby Kennedy, forcing him to face his moral failings in front of America's foremost black leaders. This, I am convinced, put the fear in the Kennedys and ultimately forced Democrats, as a whole, to DO SOMETHING.</p><p>RFK wasn't the best, but James Baldwin was. <br>American aristocrats SHOULD be scared of the fire next time.<br><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Robert_Kennedy_and_His_Times/0xqrU5lnD7AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Robert+Kennedy+and+his+times%22+James+Baldwin&pg=PA330" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">google.com/books/edition/Rober</span><span class="invisible">t_Kennedy_and_His_Times/0xqrU5lnD7AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Robert+Kennedy+and+his+times%22+James+Baldwin&pg=PA330</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>Re-sharing for what would be James Baldwin's 101st birthday.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113439103442820640" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1</span><span class="invisible">13439103442820640</span></a></p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Trump Watch 👀<p>“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
— James Baldwin
101 years later, the fire still burns.
<a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JamesBaldwin" target="_blank">#JamesBaldwin</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Baldwin101" target="_blank">#Baldwin101</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BlackSky" target="_blank">#BlackSky</a></p>
Omar Moore<p>NEW: Saturday’s POLITICRAT. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a></p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-politicrat/id1503246845?i=1000720416543" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/</span><span class="invisible">the-politicrat/id1503246845?i=1000720416543</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>happybirthday</span></a></p>
TheEdinburghBookshop<p>"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."</p><p>Today would have been the birthday of the great <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> </p><p>He may be gone, but his thoughts and dreams remain to be shared through the power of the written word.</p><p>The fact that his books are among those that certain people would often try to repress or ban is also another important reason why Book People should shout out such writers. Their articulate thoughts on paper still scare certain groups; we readers, we celebrate them.</p><p><a href="https://bookish.community/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/bookshops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookshops</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/librairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librairies</span></a> <a href="https://bookish.community/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Omar Moore<p>Happy 101st Birthday to the one and only James Baldwin. Activist. Author. Orator. One of the greatest intellectuals, writers and thinkers of the 20th century. ✊🏿🙏🏿</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/happybirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>happybirthday</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a></p>
🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung<p>Am 2. August 1924 wurde der Schriftsteller <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> in New York geboren. In seinem Leben spiegeln sich viele Konflikte und Hoffnungen der US-Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnDiesemTag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnDiesemTag</span></a> 🧵</p>
7sleepersmusic<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TBT</span></a> #1971 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NikkiGiovanni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NikkiGiovanni</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> in conversation. Two of the finest minds that any civilization has ever produced. IMHO This is a must-see. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.allarts.org/programs/generational-anxiety/soul-featuring-james-baldwin-nikki-giovanni-part-1-wv7gqj/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">allarts.org/programs/generatio</span><span class="invisible">nal-anxiety/soul-featuring-james-baldwin-nikki-giovanni-part-1-wv7gqj/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a></p>
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)<p>Why white people cannot accept truth</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackmastodon</span></a></p>
Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p>Using appropriate - and safe - euphemisms and synonyms this could be described as the first stage in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> of 'urban renewal' - for which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a> had a rather different term! . Comparison as to what was done to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warsaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warsaw</span></a> by occupying forces more than eighty years ago would be entirely inappropriate and should not be made under any circumstances! Just as an American professor once described the emptying of the countryside of south <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vietnam</span></a> in the 1960s as 'forced draft urbanisation'!</p>
BLK News Now!<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesBaldwin</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MayaAngelou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayaAngelou</span></a> share their thoughts on being Black Americans. (1971) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndependenceDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependenceDay</span></a> </p><p>Angelou: One of the things I think, I mean I do believe we are Americans. It is true…</p><p>Baldwin: You believe it?</p><p>Angelou: Well…</p><p>Baldwin: I know it.</p><p>Angelou: We are Black Americans. We have our feet, our souls, our hearts and…</p><p>Baldwin: We have paid for this country.</p><p>Angelou: Absolutely.</p><p>Baldwin: That’s why I would never leave it by the way.</p><p><a href="https://blknewsnow.com/maya-angelou-interviews-james-baldwin-1971/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blknewsnow.com/maya-angelou-in</span><span class="invisible">terviews-james-baldwin-1971/</span></a></p>
Rita C :catjam:<p>Leituras de Junho 📚 foi um bom mês, bem variado e intenso.</p><p>📕 Hipocritões e Olhigarcas Passado e futuro das guerras culturais, Rui Tavares / 5⭐ <br>📖 Swimming In The Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski / 4.5⭐ <br>📕 O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças, Afonso Cruz / 4.7⭐ <br>📖 Giovanni'S Room, James Baldwin / 5⭐ <br>📕 Filha da Louca, Maria Francisca Gama / 4.5⭐ <br>📖 As Primas, Aurora Venturini / 5⭐ </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruitavares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruitavares</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tomaszjedrowski" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tomaszjedrowski</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/afonsocruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>afonsocruz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jamesbaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesbaldwin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mariafranciscagama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mariafranciscagama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/auroraventurini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auroraventurini</span></a></p>
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