{"id":367954,"date":"2018-07-04T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-baldwinites-regret\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T06:35:12","slug":"a-baldwinites-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-baldwinites-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baldwinite\u2019s Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103412\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/1920px-James_Baldwin_37_Allan_Warren_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Allan warren | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As much as this fruitful world has to offer there are\u00a0special moments\u00a0we will never experience. And though technology has done a fascinating job facilitating\u00a0some of\u00a0our disadvantages, it will always remain that way. The minds of\u00a0silicone\u00a0valley are steadfast but I doubt if they can come up with an App that neutralizes human defects &#8211; like vanity, jealousy,\u00a0megalomania, denial, and perhaps the most debilitating flaw of all &#8211;\u00a0self-righteousness:\u00a0A human component that sits\u00a0inconspicuously in the midst of some of our tragic failures and\u00a0missed opportunities.\u00a0One such incident took place fifty-five years ago. A moment\u00a0so egregious it blotches the pages of history, and stained, what\u00a0could&#8217;ve truly been, a\u00a0glorious day.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of\u00a01963, considerations were given for\u00a0James Baldwin\u00a0to speak at the fabled\u00a0March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. By that time, he had already graced the cover of\u00a0<em>TIME<\/em>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0and\u00a0his magnum opus,\u00a0&#8220;The Fire Next Time&#8221;\u00a0had struck the arid plains of Jim Crow America\u00a0like a bolt of lightning; so, having him speak would seem a logical choice. But for\u00a0self-righteous\u00a0reasons\u00a0that I&#8217;m sure was discussed under the perceived agency of logic, Baldwin was spurned.\u00a0James Baldwin, one of the most intellectually endowed critical thinkers of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Luminaries like Baldwin are precious, and usually not around as long as we would like them to be, which is why we should fall sylphlike&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/03\/a-baldwinites-regret\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Allan warren | CC BY 2.0 As much as this fruitful world has to offer there are\u00a0special moments\u00a0we will never experience. And though technology has done a fascinating job facilitating\u00a0some of\u00a0our disadvantages, it will always remain that way. The minds of\u00a0silicone\u00a0valley are steadfast but I doubt if they can come up with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}