James Baldwin's Between The World And Me

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James Baldwin, a very inspirational man, had to live in a racist world all his life. He became a writer after many people told him that a black man could never do so. His book The Fire Next Time, stood out too many Americans because of the strong message it sent out. That if blacks and whites all came together a perfect nation would be able to happen. Baldwin’s arguments towards racism are very accurate. One point that he makes is that White America turns blacks to the dark side, another point he makes is that in order to form and nation blacks and whites all need to come together. The author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a book called Between the World and Me, that is a response to Baldwin’s book. Coates book comes together with Baldwin’s because …show more content…
He explains that the problem with whites is that they refuse to come together as one and share our society evenly that there would be less problems with our nation. If we could just all come together as one then our nations would finally be at peace and no one of any kind of race would have to live in fear. This is a very straightforward argument from Baldwin, because he states it so clear and he really has a lot of knowledgeable facts that most people never realize. One of the quotes he wrote was, “This has everything to do, of course, with the nature of that dream and with the fact that we Americans, of whatever color, do not dare examine it and are far from having made it reality.” (Baldwin 62.) Since the whites are not willing to accept the blacks there is no way of having a whole nation, we are not sharing this country, since some whites still have advantage over any other race. Baldwin’s very wise words explain that blacks may never be accepted but if they were the world would be a better

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