Analysis of the fire next time by James Baldwin one day in power in the United States” (Baldwin, p. 83) Baldwin uses an example of how black Americans were kidnapped, brought here and sold like animals and treated as such. It is therefore impossible for their situation to change without the most radical changes. Baldwin continues to explain how freedom in political terms is difficult to obtain. The only way to do this is to be “able to bear the burden” (Baldwin, p. 91). Therefore, without the acceptance of this burden, the principles of transformation into one nation will not allow us to recognize ourselves as we are. Baldwin addresses this message primarily to white people in America, but also to black people. Baldwin realized that black people's self-image needed to be improved if they were ever to advance in America. As Baldwin wrote to his nephew: You were born where you were born and you faced the future you faced because you were black and for no other reason. So the limits of your ambition were meant to be fixed forever. You were born into a society that explained with brutal clarity, and in every way possible, that you were a worthless human being. . . . Know where you come from. If you know where you come from, there is

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