{"id":145,"date":"2015-07-05T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2015-07-05T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:32:43","slug":"james-baldwin-on-moral-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"James Baldwin on Moral Apathy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m terrified at the moral apathy &#8212; the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long, that they really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters. It&#8217;s a terrible indictment &#8212; I mean every word I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter any longer, and I&#8217;m speaking for myself, for Jimmy Baldwin, and I think I&#8217;m speaking for a great many Negroes too. It doesn&#8217;t matter any longer what you do to me; you can put me in jail, you can kill me. By the time I was 17, you&#8217;d done everything that you could do to me. The problem now is, how are you going to save yourselves?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/mlk\/sfeature\/sf_video_pop_04_tr_qt.html\">James Baldwin, American Experience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m terrified at the moral apathy &#8212; the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long, that they really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say, and this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,21,17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atrocity","category-baldwin","category-modernity","category-nation","category-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}