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The year was 1965, and the location was Cambridge University. The the topic was “The American Dream at the Expense of The American Negro” and the debaters were William F. Buckley, and James Baldwin. There were too many quoteables delivered by Baldwin in this speech to just choose one so we found a nice size portion of the speech to deliver to you.
With so many questions about race, identity, America, and perception still looming here are a few offerings from Baldwin for you to wrestle with.
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