Rage

During the last ten years of his life, Baldwin produced a number of important works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and turned to teaching as a new way of connecting with the young. The first step in this process is to cultivate a cultural, spiritual and mental toughness and tenacity that will not countenance failure. He reported, criticized, analyzed, attacked, sang, made us think and made us consciously human. The struggles of black American was unlike anything that had been written in the early 1960s. Once he said, “ we are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force in which can change it. For many, NOTES FOR A NATIVE SON and THE FIRST NEXT TIME, were an early and primary voice in the civil rights movement. The signs are that this task will be no less difficult than that faced by previous generations. This is the mission that new generation must accept and master if African people are to once again step out on the stage of history as free, proud and productive people.

And now its up to new generations of black student, youth activists, professionals and intellectuals must discover their mission if African in America and the world to make further progress along the path to full freedom and liberation. Racism is still alive and well in this country. Baldwin always was continuously conscious of the hypocrisies and injustices in the world around him and as writer, he strove to make his audience aware of the possibility that people could do and be better. egan to work on an explosive work about black identity and state of racial struggle, THE FIRST NEXT TIME (1963). A new generation prepares to accept leadership in the black freedom struggle, it’ s important to understand that Africans have made great progress, but still much to be done. Widespread evidence of racial profiling, police brutality and continuing discrimination in virtually every area of life, America is in denial about racism.