Analysis Of The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin

The purpose of this essay is to elaborate and clarify James Baldwin’s book The Fire Next Time. Some examples that are related to his argument are given to strengthen the point. The examples are taken from the articles about ‘White People Commit the Most Heinous Crimes, So Why Is America Terrified of Black Men?’ and the book New Jim Crow.
In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin talks about how white people view themselves as a savior rather than slaves owner. Here, white people think that they are doing something great by saving the black people and by exposing them about religion. He also added a point on how white people never feels guilty about the crime that they had committed; they often choose to ignore it. Baldwin also discuss a point on how black people actually know more about whites compare to what whites know about them selves. Black people know about the

fact that white people are more racist than they realize. Other than that, Baldwin also stated the fact that white people have a type of stereotype and mindset about the black people. White people always think black people are criminal and these kinds of stereotype exist based on their own assumption. After all that white people had shown throughout the history why can they actually say that it’s the young African American is the one that should be considered as criminal?
The article about the New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander has clearly shown the fact about how white people are actually blinded by their own mindset.

Most white people always view themselves as non-racists individual but black people know it better. For an example the War on Drugs that happen in America is obviously occur to target the black people from merging into the mainstream, which is the white society. This is clear because of the fact that the targeted area during the War on Drugs is basically in the rural area where most of the population is actually black. Here because of the mindset that has originally been set up, white people are blinded from viewing the true agenda of the War on Drugs. Despite of believing, they tend to blame it on the cultural pathology of black and believe it has nothing to do with racism. Here the situations about the War of Drugs has brought out Baldwin’s argument on how white people always view themselves as a peace loving group and on how they have been trap on their own mindset. Besides, we can see here that black actually know more about the whole society compare to

white.
In the article “White People Commit the Most Heinous Crimes, So Why Is America Terrified of Black Men?” the ideology of criminal-black-man has brought the misconception of black people in America. The idea of black man is a criminal has run deep in every American citizen. Based on the national survey that had been conducted, many people actually believe that blacks are aggressive and violent. These misconceptions are absolutely wrong as based on fact most of the violence crimes in the American history are actually created by the white man. Here, this point clearly stated Baldwin’s point about how white often sees them selves as a good person and how they actually have been the slaves of their own mindset. If the white people choose to acknowledge the real fact they would not have consider a black person as a criminal.