The White Man Is Without a Weapon

Baldwin was excluded as a speaker from the march on Washington because it was feared that he would be too confrontational. Hopelessness takes its effect on even a man as sensitive as Baldwin and bitterness leaks through in passages like this one: Negroes are anti-Semitic because they're anti-white. If you want some action, you've got to come on down to earth. And there's more black people on earth than there are white people on earth.