James H. Cone Quote
While Niebuhr agreed, he did not want to throw out the white man as white man, and asked whether there is not a leaven in the other classes that would correspond to the light of truth in the despised minority. Baldwin replied that I don’t mean to say the white people are villains or devils or anything like that, but what I do mean to say is this: that the bulk of the white . . . Christian majority in this country has exhibited a really staggering level of irresponsibility and immoral washing of the hands, you know. . . . I don’t suppose that . . . all the white people in Birmingham are monstrous people. But they’re mainly silent people, you know. And that is a crime in itself.
While Niebuhr agreed, he did not want to throw out the white man as white man, and asked whether there is not a leaven in the other classes that would correspond to the light of truth in the despised minority. Baldwin replied that I don’t mean to say the white people are villains or devils or anything like that, but what I do mean to say is this: that the bulk of the white . . . Christian majority in this country has exhibited a really staggering level of irresponsibility and immoral washing of the hands, you know. . . . I don’t suppose that . . . all the white people in Birmingham are monstrous people. But they’re mainly silent people, you know. And that is a crime in itself.
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