I don't know what most white people in this country feel,

but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

in America, which I have never seen.

You're listening to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and

challenge white people about black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host, Katina and Garron.

In celebration of Black History Month, we are releasing new episodes every Wednesday in February,

so be on the lookout for twice the content this month.

Today's topic is James Baldwin.

We walk through James' life and story, talk of stories that shaped his character, and then we end the conversation discussing the relationship that Christianity has caused on non-believers.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, before we start, I want to, as always, kind of give you a little update on what I think, or like what I've been taught of James Baldwin.

All that I know is that he was a poet.

So he wrote poetry, he wrote speeches, he wrote kind of monologue stuff, just general kind of critiques of

segregation, racial stuff. He was obviously very anti that. And so there was a, like he lived overseas at

some point. And I know that he was on some TV shows back in the day.

But honestly, outside of that, I don't know what, but again, that's just kind of,

that's probably what most of our listeners, they probably don't even know who he is.

He's the intro of our podcast.

So you definitely have heard his voice before if you've listened to the show.

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