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Baldwin + Christianity - Coggle Diagram

- - - - all railing against "the man" (the white man)
      - people fled this desperation through the army, drugs, alcohol, or the church
      - No matter how much one worked, couldn't make enough, so crime became a solution
        
        White people “had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power.”
  - - - Baldwin fell in front of the altar at his new church and felt tremendous pain of being black in a white world, heaven not listening, god is white--> and then felt relief
- - - - quiet, peaceful, charismatic man → fatherly to followers
      - “I began to see that Elijah’s power came from his single-mindedness. There is nothing calculated about him; he means every word he says.”
        
        “I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.”
  - - - Malcolm X and Nazi leader in complete agreement on race: “The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder.”
- - - - Medgar Evers was a member of the NAACP and was investigating a murder → Baldwin came along
    - - James Baldwin first met Malcolm X when he was giving a lecture, and got intimidated by Malcolm