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James Baldwin:
For a very long time, America prospered. This prosperity cost millions of people their lives. Now, not even the people who are the most spectacular recipients of the benefits of this prosperity are able to endure these benefits. They can neither understand them nor do without them. Above all, they cannot imagine the price paid by their victims, or subjects, for this way of life, and so they cannot afford to know why the victims are revolting. This is the formula for a nation or a kingdom decline. James Baldwin:
For no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary. And this revelation invests the victim with passion
For a very long time, America prospered. This prosperity cost millions of people their lives. Now, not even the people who are the most spectacular recipients of the benefits of this prosperity are able to endure these benefits. They can neither understand them nor do without them. Above all, they cannot imagine the price paid by their victims, or subjects, for this way of life, and so they cannot afford to know why the victims are revolting. This is the formula for a nation or a kingdom decline. James Baldwin:
For no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary. And this revelation invests the victim with passion
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For a very long time America prospered
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This prosperity cost millions of people their lives
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Now not even the people who are the most spectacular recipients
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of the benefits of this prosperity
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are able to endure these benefits
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They can neither understand them nor do without them
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Above all they cannot imagine the price paid by their victims
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or subjects for this way of life
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and so they cannot afford to know why
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the victims are revolting
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Movie Summary
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
