> ... But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and #MoralBankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.
#JamesBaldwin on #USA #SocialBankruptcy #MoralBankruptcy in the Esquire article linked above and the book _Nobody Knows My Name_(1960)

> ... But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and #MoralBankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.
#JamesBaldwin on #USA #SocialBankruptcy #MoralBankruptcy in the Esquire article linked above and the book _Nobody Knows My Name_(1960)