Several months ago the L.A. Times’ Carolyn Kellogg pointed out how amazing it is that long-dead authors can “continue to exist, in shadowy form, on You Tube.”
Today I uncovered several videos of the great James Baldwin. The one above is my favorite. It makes me wish he could have lived to see Obama inaugurated.*
* But I reckon he’d be pretty angry that the president-elect asked that bigot Rick Warren to speak at his inauguration. (Sorry, the Bishop Gene Robinson invitation doesn’t dull the sting.)