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A review by vrkinase0411
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Baldwin reflects on his dark prophecies within the Fire Next Time and paints an unhindered and frank picture of who amerikkka was and is. He doesn't shy away from the psychology rampant within the oppressors that allow them to continue to turn an eye away from the destruction that is present and the responses to that destruction. Baldwin doesn't allow Malcom X, MLK, Jr., Medgar, or any revolutionary act to exist in a vacuum.
Penetrating and exacting, it requires a type of vulnerability to consume Baldwin's words and allow yourself to whittled away by it and reborn. It is not hopeful in the traditional sense, but I do sense a type of hope in Baldwin that some way, Black people within this settler nation and across the diaspora, understand how deep our pain is and how we have to turn inward towards all of us under global systemic oppression of capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, and anti blackness.
Penetrating and exacting, it requires a type of vulnerability to consume Baldwin's words and allow yourself to whittled away by it and reborn. It is not hopeful in the traditional sense, but I do sense a type of hope in Baldwin that some way, Black people within this settler nation and across the diaspora, understand how deep our pain is and how we have to turn inward towards all of us under global systemic oppression of capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, and anti blackness.