"One knew where one was by knowing where the Negro was," said James Baldwin. Black people must be kept on the bottom in society so that white people will have certainty that they will never be there. In Part 2 of this interview Baldwin did in 1960, he explores how blackness has been defined only through the lens of white supremacy and whiteness...but that is changing.

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