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The Fire Next Time: A Conversation With James Baldwin
The most segregated racist city in America has been integrated in some measure. What happens after that is people everywhere, black and white, are kind of amazed. And so from the Kennedy brothers administration side, they're like, we didn't solve the Birmingham. Bobby Kennedy just wanted that thing solved. So he and his brother could go back to ruling the world. That's what they want. Instead, they got 50 Birmingham's 100 Birmingham's. Now I have to consider the one thing that Jack and I had never wanted, which was civil rights legislation,. Because that's basically the only solution, right?obby remains against it. He wants us to be in off the books, off the record
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