Classic James Baldwin speech in Harlem / thepostarchive
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2015
- A Baldwin speech from when he visited Harlem.
Best guess for date is 1963
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I cry because we have been so blessed to have had James Baldwin walk this earth and grace us with his prolific artistry.
I found myself in tears as well...so sad that he is gone, sad because African Americans should have never had to endure such suffering. Such beauty, talent and deep though exists within them. We need equality still...Baldwin was a humble genius.
@@mbmallik771 Beautifully said Margot 🙂
Mr. Baldwin was an incredible man with such an interesting story. I wish we were required to read him in school.
If you had the right teacher. I was blessed to have a tenured teacher whom did what she wanted.
i AGREE, IM 49 AND IM JUST GETTING SERIOUSLY INTO HIM.
@@djarelljones8599 40 and it's the first time I've heard more than the name.
If you read Baldwin in school as part an actual curriculum in a public school in the United States, THAT would be progress.
@@jrshield7793That would take completely revolutionizing the intended purpose of the u.s. school system. It's never been there to educate, it's meant to indoctrinate ("I pledge allegiance to the flag..."), separate (like "special education", keeping Disabled children "separate but equal" 👀 from everyone else, like how the Ugly Laws did, and how most americans do with c0 vid masking), and make children into obedient little worker bees. If you threw James Baldwin's writing in there, it'd break the whole thing! Then they might actually have to let children think!
I AM ASHAMED THAT I AM NOW JUST FINDING OUT HOW GREAT AND IMPORTANT THIS GREAT GIFT WAS AND STILL IS..AM 59YRS OLD AND AM LEARNING MORE ABOUT MY RACE NOW THEN I DID WHEN I WAS YOUNGER..I THANK YOU MR. JAMES BALDWIN FOR EVERY THING YOU SPOKE OF IS NOW AND ITS 2020
You've been lied to as has the world by the 1% who want to keep their power which has been based on slavery and still does but in a different form........
In Swahili..
Karibu.. ( Your Welcome )
Ubarikiwe ( Bless you )
Omg.. how sad.. am really sorry.. no worries...
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Don't beat yourself up. Better late than never! Just think, at 59 you can really appreciate being on his wavelength!
Today is September 20, 2020. This speech is just as relevant and true today as it was in 1963 when Mr. Baldwin delivered it.
RIP, Mr Baldwin. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us.
5 23 2021. Ronald Greene. And I just learned that Malcolm X's death... Look for Malcolm X and the letter his family received this year 2021.
If you don't know your history....
James Baldwin at the 27 minute mark of a 1 hour speech: "If I may ramble on for a few more minutes"
Me: sir you're gonna ramble on for other 33 minutes and I'm gonna enjoy every single one of them
A brilliant and remarkable man. I feel robbed that I only really learned of him as an adult.
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
― James Baldwin
Thank you Mr Baldwin , I understand my identity because of you . This is July 2020
Ranks with the truest of statements.
That is very well said of James baldwin 👌👌❤❤. Shaun rocks the city TV show posted on RUclips.
Great man!
There but for the grace of God go I.
All of his words still ring true today.
“Hello Somebody!!”~~Nina Turner
That's because today is still yesterday. If James Baldwin has said anything it's that we're trapped in our own history. Technology has advanced, our humanity has not.
The truth is always relevant!
"As long as America imagines that it is a white country, then there is no hope." ~ J.B.
also, as long as there are many minorities and immigrants who want to integrate in only a white nation, there is no hope
Profound Statement
@@roc7880 America did not belong to whites. moreover, if whites stayed where they were(Europe) and not looted other countries, then you would not have this immigration problem . people don't come to america to integrate with whites, they come for money ???? Additionally, African Americans were brought to America in the 1600's, what about you????? Brush up on that history sir.
roc learn about your history! Perhaps not you, but your fore-parents were immigrants too! This country, does not belong to you!! Sad, that the indoctrination has led you to believe otherwise!
Alex da Vinci worse yet, is that some whites believe they are better than other races. Lots of ignorance in this country
What. A. Mind! His speeches are riveting and still relevant here in '21.
He's book should be part of a school curriculum, absolutely composury
In middle school and high school his books were on the required reading list.
@@chesterjade7630 in Michigan, no one is taught about him at least. If there are 10 states in America that include James Baldwin in the curriculum I'll be beyond suprised
My My My how relevant his words are Today
And much more relevant now
The truth will always remain relevant.
Hello from The Summer of 2020
During the Buckley debate, he hammered it when he spoke of a black Prez in 40 years. His speech was intense, and so relevant still today. I was in high school in the early 70's and we had segregated busses even then!
And even more so TODAY in 2021.
again and again no doubt a man of integrity, genius,and tells how it is...
James Baldwin words are so profound in today's society, 50+yrs ago. Definitely an incredible Man put here before his time. This is today..
Its not that he was b4 his time. Its sad that, that generation didn't listen and take action on his words!
Rise J says it well...it shows how little we have all progressed on this matter....his key words are about accepting that we are one world with all people are one race. Until we understand that there will always be racism.
Why its still relevant? Because the system's hasn't changed then nor now
I was four years old when Mr Balwin spoke these words. I grew up just as he spoke. My son is living in the same world; where history is not taught. ALTHOUGH,I have raised him to know. It's all I could do in this twisted world.
A great voice!!! I wish more people would listen...
Thank you. RIP James Baldwin.
I have been listening to this several times over the last week. Almost 60 years ago and the thoughts, feelings and issues still apply today.
Isn't it eye opening? The same thing we're dealing with today, he was dealing with then.
Love listening and learning from this ancestor.❤️❤️❤️
2019 ✊🏾 great man with wise words
Thank you Jordan Peele, and Lovecraft Country-- for giving me James Baldwin. ...to whom I could listen for HOURS
James Baldwin really knows ow and what to read between the lines. It is criminal that he isn't in the public consciousness, especially at this time
BRILLIANT
Excellent from the beginning to the end.
The wisdom is heavenly.
He speaks about the Poem written by Marianne Moore, entitled Nevertheless, that affected him:
"The weak overcomes its
menace, the strong over-
comes itself. What is there
like fortitude! What sap
went through that little thread
to make the cherry red!"
We did not come here to hear about Marianne Moore, but James Baldwin! You speak of your delight! James speaks about his experience!!!
Thank you Mr. Baldwin
What a brilliant brilliant mind. What a shame nothing has changed. What a shame humankind has regressed even in 2020.
One of the most brilliant minds of our time.
Mr. Baldwin. My hero!
Thanks Elder your inspirational work when you walked the Earth as a man
Fantastic
Thank you Mr Baldwin.. thank you Sir
Phenomenal speech by James. So on point which could be spoken today and be equally relatable today. Until root cause systemic and generational policies are dismantled, same mountain different year, over and over again. Agape. Rest in Power King. Sam Alix 💙 CHAMP
Awesomeness Awesomely Awesome and beautiful
That speech took place in 1963 and it is now Sept. 2019, my question is this. Has anything significantly positive, changed in the United States of America?
@@yjopharaoh2727 you have a good point but i think that the reason we are in this situation is based on what this video has covered. Please take a look at it and see if you agree. ruclips.net/video/Cp0MZRokXYw/видео.html
David Blake there are many of us that reject the hate. The younger generations done t make distinctions.
We are a work in progress, with setbacks and advances toward enlightenment. We are slouching into the future burdened by our past and prejudices.
No, the United States was forced to make a handful of largely symbolic concessions and everyone who was committed to fighting for liberation was either killed, imprisoned, or made ineffective. Neocolonialism and violent exploitation of nonwhite people all over the world is as strong as it has ever been in my opinion, the sort of demoralization Baldwin described 60 years ago is everywhere.
No my brother nothing has just the same old stuff occasional acts of Tokenism
Self Hatred is the worst form of Hatred...
"They wanted potatoes, not freedom" Idk why that made me cackle, but damn.
That made me laugh and I live in Ireland - but I found it a tad racist against Irish. The poorest of the poor in Ireland didnt have boat passage and starved to death by millions when the potato harvest. Those who travelled wanted meat with their potatoes. It's a mixed story. Some Irish were taken to West Indies as slaves in the 17th century. Later on, some Irish people in the US wanted somebody else to be bottom of the pile and were deeply racist.
@@casteretpollux They, the Irish were indentured servants, not slaves. Only Africans were brought to what was then the the British colonies as slaves. Our ancestors were subjugated to a legal system of chattel slavery which was the a child was status was based upon the status of the mother. If the mother's status was a slave then the child was born a slave for life. Thus that means that a child was a slave even if his father was or was not a slave. Please let that sink in because this status of chattel slavery system began in 1614 and continued until 1865 in the United States of America. Now that you know, please don't get it twisted the differences.
@@cgcade1 Yes, you're right to pull me up on that: they were not slaves and I don't equate the situations of the Irish taken to the West Indies with people who were enslaved, but neither did they leave Ireland as indentured servants. The people I'm talking about were taken by force by the English under Penal laws. They were forced into tied servitude and could be sold on by one employer to another. In law, they did have a right at some stage to be released. I don't know how many of them were. If they had children, yes, the children were free born. My reply was not to diminish what true slavery was, it was to someone who wrote about why and how the Irish went to America in terms of a joke about potatoes. The population of Ireland collapsed by a quarter under the British regime of occupation in the 17th century. It collapsed again by a quarter in the man-made famine of the 1850s. Over a million people died because their staple diet of potatoes was wiped out and a million emigrated as they would have starved if they had not. I'm not setting out in anyway to diminish the horror of slavery . I'm pointing out that potato + emigration jokes are not felt as v funny by Irish people. It was the only thing I ever heard Baldwin(who I admire greatly) say, that for me struck a wrong note . Everyone should be free and no-one should starve: perhaps we can agree on that?
IAM GETTING ME A DEGREE. NOTES
Refreshing to hear what an authentic person with celebrity sounds like not to mention his ability to interpret the feelings that most black men aren't able to express.
What great shoulders we stand on
I can listen to Mr. Baldwin all day.
Pure wisdom.
My mentor
Thanks----
No matter how much you (by you I mean me and other dumb people) panic at the beginning of one of his arguments and think "oh god this is really going to be one of those highly philosophical unintelligible rants isn't it?", he *always* lands it, he moves from an abstract complex wording, to a colloquial, pedagogical wording, so organically. I've always admired smart people who were able to make their message accessible to everyone.
We all need to know this .
Damn...
Great man of all time
Malcolm was the ultimate intelligent Man amongst men. Balwin was the most distinguished man amongst men...and color doesn't have A damn thing to do with it!2021
Exactly
Except for how they were treated and what they thought of this country. Their color did play a factor in those two things.
"Vandriane RAKKRAR", A Printed Book, Came Out to Be Bought In Norway 2009-12. Telling Stories About Being " Vandrer", " Tavring", " ROMANI" IN THIS COUNTRY-PART OF THE WORLD. I AM A ROMANI-RELATED WOMAN FROM NORWEGEN.
GREAT MAN AND MIND!
Amen.
Demoralization is the effect in a person of being robbed of his human value ! Very strong! Psychological! Intended! a strategic ploy! Great man!!
I also would love to know the date of this speech...it is SO current !!!amazing
He does say it is 1963 around minute 29
He also talks of the Kennedys so it would be before Nov 1963 when JFK was assassinated.
Brilliant mind!!!
He could have dropped the mic at 13:20 on elasped time recorder. Bro Baldwin cuts through all the formalities and tells the truth. I haven't even finished the whole 59:59 minutes yet but had to stop a comment at this point, I perceive he will continue to dive deep of the American psyches and pull up the cold truth that few cab deal with. I see why society pretty much forgot about him...a prophet has no honor in his own country. Thank you Mr. Baldwin, you called it 50 years ago and we have yet to learn. 2021 and much of this still holds true...in due time
I had not heard this one - probably one of the better speeches I've heard him give... though it's been awhile since I went looking =p
I haven't heard a bad speech. But I know what you mean
@@jamesedwards829 I cannot imagine James Baldwin giving a bad speech, that's for certain lol
To y'all it's been painful painful painful last couple don't even know how long. Again I humbly apologize to those I personally hurt on the way to the dream land. You see I work just not in the way others want me but .... I'm out of wise words now. In the end the sun do shine! Thank you Obama for being a great example. Now I know true love! To all wise ones education is the key. True love y'all does exist .......
Obama no.
I am not a political strategist. All I know is that All Praise is Due to Allah for the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Thank u
Jimmie Baldwin is the Man,,speak the truth and the truth shall set you free,,,,,it hurts to learn but the truth shall set you free,,,
James Baldwin Go tell it on the Montain
the people that laugh in the audience will not make significant change in the way they deal with society and the oppressors. one simple way is do not give the fellow citizen what he or she wants which is attention from you. do not acknowledge them as they expect you to
Thank you so much for these uploads. Any idea of the date/year of this speech?
1963, I'm guessing from his suggestion @ 28:45
before/around summer, 1963 (@ 45:05), before jfk's assassination
@@ladidadingdong Thanks. Agreed on 1963 pre-JFK assassination, and can further narrow down to post-Medgar Evers assassination (mentioned around 50:15)… So some date in 1963 after June 12 but before November 22.
Genius ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s February 14, 2020 and this should have been in our history books, All the Lies I heard about black peoples was awful and they the only thing the school teacher told us down in the Arkansas woods was “”we used to be slaves”” Never heard positive stories about black peoples,,, I had to teach myself after I got grown and I am still learning how great my ancestors were, we came from kings and Queens, we built the White House and we built this country,,,but yet we do not share the wealth, something is very wrong
in a way the blindness of the libertarian plutocrats or of their followers today who think they did it all by themselves is worse now than the moral blindness during the slavery. Washington and Jefferson knew that they did not deserve all the wealth they had, that a big part of it was due to the slaves they owned and created that wealth. but now you see billionaires who sincerely believe that they succeeded without any help while hiring people to make them rich, as those employees had nothing to do with that wealth. I imagine an alien civilization discovering earth in the future asking why is that place named the White House when it was built by black people.
There are many gems in this talk.. one of my favorites..'In order to become a man in this country, the negro has had to do and endure and transcend incredible things.. and IF you manage to get to be a man..a black man In America.. you really are a man. This is not true for most white man..,I hate to say it, but that's true' - James Baldwin
I don't think that rich whites have to remind poor whites that they aren't black. I believe this is an innate feeling that soon become cognizant in whites at an early age. Many poor whites today have virtually little contact with anyone who is wealthy.
all true still today #saintbaldwin
AT HARVARD WE STUDY. NOTES.
I'm tired and I need to rest.
Luckilly, I Am Still ALIVE, EVEN THOUGH I WAS AN UNWANTED CHILD TO THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT, AND, STILL IS.
ACCORDING MY PARENTS;
I AM A LOVECHILD ❣️ ☮️🍀🙏🐘🦉🧙🕊️❣️🕊️
It's a head spinner when you realize you're in the belly of the beast of the empire
He better READ‼️👊
What wat a educated handsome man
No hope it's over
Linette ,Sanny
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he quotes poet Marianne Moore
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'what sap
went through that fruit to make the cherry red' 🍒
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CALL IT FROM THE HILL! AND, _ MOUNTAIN!!!
RUclips muting part of this speech as well?
Funny how things have changed so little
Joe DeBose It’s tragic
Karen Matthews yes but what we are seeing in the world and the streets of America white and black Americans fighting for equality sacrificing, together is so amazingly beautiful
He said he always knew he was a man. The country never did!!
Facts
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Denialism is a philosophy of the weak afraid of fair competition! It’s self defeating with time
If he could see the shit going on in America now .... 2020
It’s like America in essence owes us (African Americans) $1000. They killed our leaders in the civil rights era and gave us $200. We’re too content and afraid to get the rest of what America owes us but I truly think this up and coming generation has something for America...they lack fear which is what we need as a people again. Our older generations just have to guide them and show patience.
BADAZZTHANG I agree
So are you saying that the pain and suffering of our ancestors equates to $1,000? If so, that is mighty cheap. There is no monetary value that can be placed for such a toll.
Loofah, Mart Tyne, teen,tim
The white power structure!? Eastman's telegram to Medger Evers widow?? What was that about?? History!! We have to reveal all that happened in this country's history. No more denial!!
🤣 👍 he says that all folk bar the enslaved came here for various ecomonic reasons, not ideals of pure thought and action
as an example, he says about the 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪
'they wanted potatoes, not freedom' 👏
Forget the past, ignore the present, and tomorrow will be better...classic manipulation..
why in his photo does his head disappear as the speech goes on...?
No fathers protections no future
immasoxfanbaby profound quote, who said that?
Lore Bay thank u bay
This is I advocate for African American men to quit sports and return back to academics. Football has robbed us of the black intellectuals.
Black woman named Mary Plesant .helped.. John Brown..do a show on that..real black history
"History is not something you study it's something you archive"
Es la Martine
america wants psychological slaves and wants to blind Black people with christianity
If trump ????? ....wait naw........ He couldn't!!!!!