They would not want to be Black here / James Baldwin.
Speech on the condition of Blacks in a white-dominated United States. He argues that the Civil Rights movement represents only a recent slave revolt, with its leadership assassinated (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X., etc.). He argues that the only progress which can be made is for Blacks to take matters into their own hands, and organize to teach and help their own.|THEY WOULD NOT WANT TO BE BLACK HERE : JAMES BALDWIN. Speech on the condition of Blacks in a white-dominated United States. He argues that the Civil Rights movement represents only a recent slave revolt, with its leadership assassinated (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, etc.). He argues that the only progress which can be made is for Blacks to take matters into their own hands, and organize to teach and help their own. - RECORDED: U.C. Berkeley, 1979.