On one level it can be related so the listener becomes more or less curious, mildly interested and intellectually aware of what he is hearing. But if the actuality cannot be known, it can be related.
Only James Meredith knows what it really means to be James Meredith. Of fear or the misery of humiliation unless one has lived it. Baldwin is skillful, one can never really know the corrosion of hate, the taste No matter the skill of the writer, and Mr. Ou must put yourself in the skin of a black man." writes James Baldwin as he seeks to translate what it means to be a Negro in whiteĪmerica so that a white man can understand it.ĭespite the inherent difficulties of such a task, his translation in latest book, "The Fire Next Time," is masterful.
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