S E122: James Baldwin: "Freedom Can't Be Given, It Must Be Taken!" (Part 3)
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🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We are in a new Civil War...a spiritual Civil War. The race problem confronting America is ripping America to shreds. America has a heart condition. But James Baldwin was optimistic that a change is going to come...in 1960. Are you?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I had a call on my radio show on Serious XM who said Karen I think we're |
| 0:16.8 | headed towards another civil war and I said no we are already in it and |
| 0:21.3 | instead of bombs and bullets the attack is spiritual the |
| 0:26.0 | attack is at the very fabric of what it means to be America and we're in it |
| 0:30.0 | right now we are at war with ourselves as a nation and if we don't solve this race problem, |
| 0:36.6 | it will completely destroy this country. It is the birth of the destruction of America. Not Russia, not China, but race and racism. |
| 0:46.0 | Martin Luther King, Baldwin says in this interview that he did with Nathan Cohen that I've broken into three parts, this is part three, |
| 0:52.2 | it's the 1960 |
| 0:53.6 | interview that he did with reporter, the talk show host Nathan Cohen in on a |
| 0:59.2 | show called Encounter, which was a Canadian talk show. He actually points that out and he said Martin Luther King reframed a discussion. |
| 1:06.0 | Martin Luther King, Baldwin said, made the Negro problem a matter of moral self-examination. |
| 1:11.0 | And this is where we are in 2019 an exact same place of moral |
| 1:15.4 | self-examination. William Barbara at the 2016 Democratic National |
| 1:20.1 | Convention William Barbara who actually picked up the baton that Martha the King, got shot out of his |
| 1:25.8 | hand when he was assassinated with a poor people's campaign, William Barbara said America |
| 1:30.4 | has a heart condition. America needs a moral defibrillation. That's what William Barber said. And |
| 1:36.9 | Baldwin said in this interview that it will never be resolved until every white person |
| 1:42.1 | in America is able to do without this crutch, this |
| 1:45.0 | crutch of white supremacy, this crutch of whiteness. |
| 1:47.5 | He said the white man must give up his crutch. |
| 1:50.0 | And he also said that the black, the Negro, must give up his crutch too. |
| 1:54.3 | Because the Negro also uses this white supremacy and this downtrottness |
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