Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now-all over a globe which has never been and never will be White-my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The
( James Baldwin )
[ Notes of a Native Son ]
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