Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his | dG1feVoycnV6cFlZQzQ
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00:00 It was 1957 when I left Paris for Little Rock. This is 1980 and what has happened to all
00:09 those people, children, I mean, and what happened in this country.
00:14 What you see and how you render what you see, that's very important for us. I'm going to
00:28 learn a lot about South America.
00:31 The 60s did this. It clarified once and forever and in the sight of all the world, the real
00:43 intentions of our co-citizens toward us.
00:46 Everything has changed on the surface. Nothing else has been touched.
00:54 There are no signs saying you can't go here, you can't go there. You got to figure that out all by your lungs.
01:00 Now the South, I learned it. I learned it a long time ago.
01:06 The doctrine of white supremacy in which the Western world is based has had its hour, has
01:22 had its day. It's over.
01:25 (audience applauding)
01:28 (thud)