I don’t have the slightest sorrow for that guy. He was condescending without even trying. Disingenuous as well, the asshole when he tries to throw out the nonsense that African Americans have shown a “failure to make certain exertions” to get jobs, training, that they have 14x as many illegitimate children, etc.
Whereas Baldwin couldn’t help but win when he said, “I grew that cotton. I carried it to market…” Powerful!
Oddly, one of my favorite lines of Baldwin’s, mostly because I fall under the same fallacy, that being nice, polite, to everyone, will raise the standard of everyone, when it has little bearing on the standards of anyone.
"...we could walk out of here assuming that the measure of our enlightenment or our politeness, may have some effect on the world. It may not."
