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"The white policeman... finds himself at the very center of the revolution now occuring in the world. He is not prepared for it -- naturally, nobody is -- and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him....
"One day, to everyone's astonisment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. Before the dust has settled or the blood congealed, editorials, speeches, and civil rights commisions are loud in the land, demanding to know what happened. What happened is that Negroes want to be treated like [humans]."
James Baldwin, 1960
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