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TW: Pessimism 1971 James Baldwin: America is not going to change. … I cannot be deluded by the people whom I know best of all the people on the earth.
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Margaret Mead: Do you think if you tell them they won't change, they will? Are you just trying to provoke them into better behavior?
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Baldwin: Allen Ginsberg said, "Don't call the cop a pig, call him a friend. If you call him a friend, he'll act like a friend." I know more about cops than that.
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Mead: Which cops? Baldwin: All the cops. Mead: You don't know anything about the young people who are becoming cops today.
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Baldwin: I know a lot about the colleges. Mead: I'm sorry. You don't know! You don't know a thing in the world about the young college people who are going into a tough situation with a tough ethos, trying to change it. Baldwin; Uh huh, uh huh.
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