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41. It's not clear to me what you're saying. Are you saying that it's "ridiculous" that Baldwin

Tue Nov 23, 2021, 04:05 PM

Nov 2021

believes "white people go around ... with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people"?

"it seems to me" has always sounded to me like he was hedging a rhetorical bet in case his notion didn't go over as well as he hoped.

With whom? White people?

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