{"id":5265,"date":"2008-11-01T21:40:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2008-11-01T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T05:00:08","slug":"baldwin-malcolm-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5265","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I can&#039;t be a pessimist, because I am alive.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/2xconsciousness.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/i-cant-be-pessamist-because-i-am-alive.html\" target=\"_self\">Double Consciousness<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/photos250\/photos\/2006\/214\/1420_115465787368.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 315px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/photos250\/photos\/2006\/214\/1420_115465787368.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timwise.org\/\">Time Wise<\/a>, on his Facebook posted this video of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29\">James<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/james-baldwin\/introduction\/59\/\">Baldwin<\/a>.  In his post he stated:<br \/>\n<span class=\"story_comment_back_quote\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an amazing clip of Baldwin, discussing Malcolm and Martin, but especially the last two minutes, in which he poses the ultimate challenge to white America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with his views on the Black Muslim movement but he was speaking from a different time and a different generation.  His answers are just (as the video poster states) lucid and so well thought out; his brilliance just shines through.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hDjaqhuSqQE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hDjaqhuSqQE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Double Consciousness. Time Wise, on his Facebook posted this video of James Baldwin. In his post he stated: This is an amazing clip of Baldwin, discussing Malcolm and Martin, but especially the last two minutes, in which he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}