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#1. The summary of the speech.

Baldwin is a firm believer in the power of educated citizens to speak out against social injustice. He examines American society by portraying Americans as being more susceptible to myths about their own superiority than to critical, open-minded thought and action. I believe Baldwin’s historical perspective emphasizes the ability of individuals to affect social and historical realities. It’s important to note, as Baldwin does, that the teacher’s role can help develop the most independent thinkers and intellectually free individuals. For over three decades, he was the Black Revolution’s gadfly: an angry, incessant entity with strangely bulging eyes and a wickedly pointed tongue that tortured the American conscience. If James Baldwin were still alive today, his fame would soar as a result of his contributions to the United States of America. A member of a historically underrepresented group has provided the “exquisite sting of truth” to the United States’ highest authority. It is not my intention today to discuss the enduring value of or place in the canon of James Baldwin’s work, but rather to discuss why he chose to leave the very place where all of these diverse perspectives and knowledge came together for the purpose of writing these brilliant essays of truth ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1353/cal.2000.0032″,”ISSN”:”1080-6512″,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Henderson”,”given”:”Mae G.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Callaloo”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issue”:”1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2000″]]},”page”:”313-327″,”publisher”:”Johns Hopkins University Press”,”title”:”James Baldwin: Expatriation, Homosexual Panic, and Man’s Estate”,”type”:”article-journal”,”volume”:”23″},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=8615c41f-b89a-3120-bdcf-d9963e3c6bbf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Henderson). A fascinating task is learning about James Baldwin’s life, which is full of stories, realizations, and struggles that seem to go on forever. The move from America to Paris, where he made a complete 180-degree turn in his life, surprised me the most. This may seem like a non-event, but Baldwin left America because he couldn’t bear to be trapped in his own skin any longer, bound to American culture.

#2. Similarities:

Racial Discrimination

When it comes to being a black American, James Baldwin likens being an unloved stepson to the United States treating blacks like an ugly stepchild. In 1948, a terrible thing happened in a diner in New Jersey. The waitress’s words had sent a wave of rage through him, “We don’t serve Negroes here.” His eyes began to grow dull, suddenly he threw a glass of wine at her. When she sprinted away, she smashed a mirror against the wall opposite him. It took him some time to regain consciousness and realize that his life was in danger due to the hatred he harbored in his heart, which led him to flee the diner.

No Knowledge of Laws

The use of force by law enforcement against African Americans is as American as the bald cypress and the Southern magnolia. Every generation have seen the heartbreaking ritual of a Black family grieving in public for the death of a loved one at the hands of the police.

Identity Issues

To be free of the tyranny of the Negroes, he must accept the fate of a black man and share in his suffering (Baldwin, 1963, p. 341). Even if white Americans disagreed with the strategy, they would appreciate the fight if they themselves were black. People must overcome their psychological insecurities in order to engage in genuine emotional engagement and revelation, and the country must avoid turning this struggle and fraternity into an attitude ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Glaude Jr.”,”given”:”Eddie S.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Time.com”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2020″]]},”title”:”How James Baldwin Told the Truth About Racism in America | Time”,”type”:”article-magazine”},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=5445be27-6eff-3ab1-8ccc-9f57c1de7ccf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Glaude Jr.). Our true American identity will not be realized until a majority of white people share our views on this issue, until white people march alongside black people and risk their lives together in the face of brutality and injustice.

No Equal Opportunities in Job Places and Education

The ability of a person to see things from his or her own point of view, make decisions for himself, and decide whether or not something is black or white is what education is all about, according to Baldwin.

#3. Differences:

In the article – the role of the American writer

His works on race and social issues set new literary ground for one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, James Baldwin. In addition to his literature, he wrote extensively about the African American experience in the United States.

In the speech – the reasons for riotesAs Baldwin put it: “The reason that Black people are out protesting has to do with the lives that they’re forced to lead in this country, and they’re forced to lead these lives because of the indifference, apathy and a certain kind, an extremely wilfully ignorant part of their co-citizens.”

The goal of the article – to inform people about the position of the African Americans

The goal of the interview – to analyze the reasons for riotesQuote 1: According to Baldwin “I knew what it meant to be white and I knew what it meant to be a nigger, and I knew what was going to happen to me. My luck was running out. I was going to go to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed. My best friend had committed suicide two years earlier, jumping off the George Washington Bridge.”-James Baldwin

Paraphrase: In other words, “I’m not your slave.” That’s when it dawned on him that racism was nothing more than a symptom of Baldwin’s larger existential or “human” illness.

Response: I agree that Baldwin makes an effort to help us deal with those rare and precious instants when dilemmas undoubtedly bubble to the substratum of our minds.

Quote 2: In accordance to interview, “Well, part of the reason is one is doing one’s best to avoid violence. One of the reasons it could happen that way is because for so long, four hundred years, the American republic, in general, has ignored and denied the whole situation that Negroes have operated within – to be a source of cheap labor, for example, north or south, is to be, in effect, oppressed. Now, the oppression is bad enough. But the myth that the country’s created about the object of the oppression: the myth about the negro being happy in his place, is something the republic has managed to believe and, so that in addition to the fact of the oppression, one has also the fact that within the country for one hundred years there’s been a way of life occurring in the country, which most of the country knows nothing about. And it’s reflected, for example, in the way Negroes talk to each other. It’s a kind of language which does not really exist on what we like to think of as a major level of the American culture.ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“ISBN”:”9780472027613″,”abstract”:””This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin’s stature as essayist

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#1. The summary of the speech.

Baldwin is a firm believer in the power of educated citizens to speak out against social injustice. He examines American society by portraying Americans as being more susceptible to myths about their own superiority than to critical, open-minded thought and action. I believe Baldwin’s historical perspective emphasizes the ability of individuals to affect social and historical realities. It’s important to note, as Baldwin does, that the teacher’s role can help develop the most independent thinkers and intellectually free individuals. For over three decades, he was the Black Revolution’s gadfly: an angry, incessant entity with strangely bulging eyes and a wickedly pointed tongue that tortured the American conscience. If James Baldwin were still alive today, his fame would soar as a result of his contributions to the United States of America. A member of a historically underrepresented group has provided the “exquisite sting of truth” to the United States’ highest authority. It is not my intention today to discuss the enduring value of or place in the canon of James Baldwin’s work, but rather to discuss why he chose to leave the very place where all of these diverse perspectives and knowledge came together for the purpose of writing these brilliant essays of truth ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1353/cal.2000.0032″,”ISSN”:”1080-6512″,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Henderson”,”given”:”Mae G.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Callaloo”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issue”:”1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2000″]]},”page”:”313-327″,”publisher”:”Johns Hopkins University Press”,”title”:”James Baldwin: Expatriation, Homosexual Panic, and Man’s Estate”,”type”:”article-journal”,”volume”:”23″},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=8615c41f-b89a-3120-bdcf-d9963e3c6bbf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Henderson). A fascinating task is learning about James Baldwin’s life, which is full of stories, realizations, and struggles that seem to go on forever. The move from America to Paris, where he made a complete 180-degree turn in his life, surprised me the most. This may seem like a non-event, but Baldwin left America because he couldn’t bear to be trapped in his own skin any longer, bound to American culture.

#2. Similarities:

Racial Discrimination

When it comes to being a black American, James Baldwin likens being an unloved stepson to the United States treating blacks like an ugly stepchild. In 1948, a terrible thing happened in a diner in New Jersey. The waitress’s words had sent a wave of rage through him, “We don’t serve Negroes here.” His eyes began to grow dull, suddenly he threw a glass of wine at her. When she sprinted away, she smashed a mirror against the wall opposite him. It took him some time to regain consciousness and realize that his life was in danger due to the hatred he harbored in his heart, which led him to flee the diner.

No Knowledge of Laws

The use of force by law enforcement against African Americans is as American as the bald cypress and the Southern magnolia. Every generation have seen the heartbreaking ritual of a Black family grieving in public for the death of a loved one at the hands of the police.

Identity Issues

To be free of the tyranny of the Negroes, he must accept the fate of a black man and share in his suffering (Baldwin, 1963, p. 341). Even if white Americans disagreed with the strategy, they would appreciate the fight if they themselves were black. People must overcome their psychological insecurities in order to engage in genuine emotional engagement and revelation, and the country must avoid turning this struggle and fraternity into an attitude ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Glaude Jr.”,”given”:”Eddie S.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Time.com”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2020″]]},”title”:”How James Baldwin Told the Truth About Racism in America | Time”,”type”:”article-magazine”},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=5445be27-6eff-3ab1-8ccc-9f57c1de7ccf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Glaude Jr.). Our true American identity will not be realized until a majority of white people share our views on this issue, until white people march alongside black people and risk their lives together in the face of brutality and injustice.

No Equal Opportunities in Job Places and Education

The ability of a person to see things from his or her own point of view, make decisions for himself, and decide whether or not something is black or white is what education is all about, according to Baldwin.

#3. Differences:

In the article – the role of the American writer

His works on race and social issues set new literary ground for one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, James Baldwin. In addition to his literature, he wrote extensively about the African American experience in the United States.

In the speech – the reasons for riotesAs Baldwin put it: “The reason that Black people are out protesting has to do with the lives that they’re forced to lead in this country, and they’re forced to lead these lives because of the indifference, apathy and a certain kind, an extremely wilfully ignorant part of their co-citizens.”

The goal of the article – to inform people about the position of the African Americans

The goal of the interview – to analyze the reasons for riotesQuote 1: According to Baldwin “I knew what it meant to be white and I knew what it meant to be a nigger, and I knew what was going to happen to me. My luck was running out. I was going to go to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed. My best friend had committed suicide two years earlier, jumping off the George Washington Bridge.”-James Baldwin

Paraphrase: In other words, “I’m not your slave.” That’s when it dawned on him that racism was nothing more than a symptom of Baldwin’s larger existential or “human” illness.

Response: I agree that Baldwin makes an effort to help us deal with those rare and precious instants when dilemmas undoubtedly bubble to the substratum of our minds.

Quote 2: In accordance to interview, “Well, part of the reason is one is doing one’s best to avoid violence. One of the reasons it could happen that way is because for so long, four hundred years, the American republic, in general, has ignored and denied the whole situation that Negroes have operated within – to be a source of cheap labor, for example, north or south, is to be, in effect, oppressed. Now, the oppression is bad enough. But the myth that the country’s created about the object of the oppression: the myth about the negro being happy in his place, is something the republic has managed to believe and, so that in addition to the fact of the oppression, one has also the fact that within the country for one hundred years there’s been a way of life occurring in the country, which most of the country knows nothing about. And it’s reflected, for example, in the way Negroes talk to each other. It’s a kind of language which does not really exist on what we like to think of as a major level of the American culture.ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“ISBN”:”9780472027613″,”abstract”:””This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin’s stature as essayist