Just Jo

Yes times one million. #baldwin

davidquigg:

I’ve been having trouble reading, trouble focusing, trouble thinking. But this is off to a dazzling start.

Here, have a passage:

As for The Defiant Ones, its suggestion that Negroes and whites can learn to love each other if they are only chained together long enough runs so madly counter to the facts that it must be dismissed as one of the latest, and sickest, of the liberal fantasies, even if one does not quarrel with the notion that love on such terms is desirable. These movies are designed not to trouble, but to reassure; they do not reflect reality, they merely rearrange its elements into something we can bear. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are.

(via seelinewoman)

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    Yes times one million. #baldwin

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