May 5, 2025

The world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

James Baldwin (1924–1987), American writer, Notes of a Native Son (1955) Seldes p.33

Who ever said it was white? What about the yellows, the browns, the blacks, not to mention the reds?

Baldwin saw into the post-colonial future, after the five hundred-year long “Age of Discovery”. Surely the landing on the moon fourteen years later is related, but how?