In The Fire Next Time: Comparing Blackmon And Alexander

Baldwin vs Blackmon and Alexander We all know people with a big heart, the people who forgive and forget and move on. These people are kind- hearted and don’t let the past harm their future. These outstanding characteristic all tie into one person, James Baldwin. James Baldwin wrote a short story called, In the Fire Next Time. This short story concludes the racial inequality in America and the issues in the next generation of black people. In this essay, I am going to compare James Baldwin's book to Blackmon and Alexander. A main theme I noticed when reading In the Fire Next Time is white people misunderstanding the reality of black people. This short story mainly talks about the myths and lies that white people are living in. Baldwin starts off with a letter to his nephew about the racial differences, and inequalities in the world. He relates to this feeling, and explains that white people will never understand the harsh realities of the world. White people were born into the world believing that it's a good place, and that life is fair. The sad truth is that they are wrong,

Once the black people were freed, white people felt offended that they shared the same status as a black person, so they started to reconstruct amendments. Black people were socially and economically controlled. Businesses had cheaper labor, all blacks were put into mining, and convict leasing became a norm. In fact black people were being leased out as a way to pay their fines, which made it impossible for black people to have any economic status. This all relates to Baldwin because it's all about living in an unjust world. Baldwin stresses the idea that white people will always have a good life, and will never understand the pain black people go through. Black people have endured such pain, which explains why black people feel so little