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Feb 2, 2023Liked by Thomas Shull

Baldwin is a powerful writer and speaker. Wonder what truths Buckley had to say...

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Feb 2, 2023Liked by Thomas Shull

Posted this on my FB. PAge, remembering when recently graduated a group of black students came to my Amer lit class and I encouraged them to read Black writers

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At 82, graduate of Florida State University in benighted Tallahassee in 1961, and having been arrested on the campus of Florida A&M, the Negro University for the crime of being white (so spoken in code:"You don't belong here, boy!", and being a Navy child from all over, I can attest to the bone-chilling reality of James Baldwin's life. Shortly before I left FSU, the local Unitarian church was burned down for having hosted Philip Wylie, who stated "We'll all be tea-colored soon..."

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