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James Baldwin:
To watch the TV screen for any length of time is to learn some really frightening things about the American sense of reality. We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. These images are designed not to trouble, but to reassure. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are
To watch the TV screen for any length of time is to learn some really frightening things about the American sense of reality. We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly. These images are designed not to trouble, but to reassure. They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is, ourselves as we are
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To watch the TV screen for any length of time
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is to learn some really frightening things
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about the American sense of reality
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We are cruelly trapped between what we would like to be
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and what we actually are
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And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until
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we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead
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on this continent are mainly so empty
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so tame and so ugly
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These images are designed not to trouble
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but to reassure
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They also weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is
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ourselves as we are
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Movie Summary
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
