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Paying The Dues for Social Justice

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" Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced " --James Baldwin " I could no longer sit around in Paris discussing America.  I had to come and pay my dues ." --James Baldwin For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not  first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?  (Luke 14:28) I had the privilege to watch the documentary  "I am not your negro"  that chronicled the perspective and the works of James Baldwin.  James Baldwin was an African American novelist, intellectual, and social critic who wrote and spoke for the African American experience in an nearly unparalleled manner for over 30 years from the 1950's to the 1980's.  His writing and speaking style combines the richness of many streams of literature and applied them to the tragedy of the African American experience resulting in work that is as elegant as it is provocative in nature. In the documen