Tag: White

• June 13, 2018

  James Baldwin on the White Man’s Necessity for a Nigger

  Hi, I’m a bit embarrassed that I have not dedicated a space on this blog to talk about one of my favorite intellectuals: James Baldwin. In 1965, Baldwin visited Cambridge University for a historic debate against the leading Conservative “intellectual”, William F. Buckley. The debate took place at the debating hall of Cambridge Union surrounded…
• October 17, 2017

  Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal

  At the height of the Detroit rebellion, on July 28, 1967, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to answer three basic questions about the riots: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? Mounting civil unrest since 1965 had spawned riots…